Horatio Nelson and the naval supremacy of England . fter years say ofhim a little ambiguously. I should think he neverwent to bed or got up without kneeling down andsaying his prayers. * His mother was a daughterof Maurice Suckling, a Prebendary of Westminster,whose grandmother, as Nelson tells us himself in his Memoir of his Services, was sister to Sir RobertWalpole, Earl of Orford. There was some fightingspirit on his mothers side. Galfridus Walpolecommanded the Lion, of sixty guns, in a gallantaction in the Mediterranean in 1711, and his swordcame to Horatio Nelson from his uncle. CaptainSu
Horatio Nelson and the naval supremacy of England . fter years say ofhim a little ambiguously. I should think he neverwent to bed or got up without kneeling down andsaying his prayers. * His mother was a daughterof Maurice Suckling, a Prebendary of Westminster,whose grandmother, as Nelson tells us himself in his Memoir of his Services, was sister to Sir RobertWalpole, Earl of Orford. There was some fightingspirit on his mothers side. Galfridus Walpolecommanded the Lion, of sixty guns, in a gallantaction in the Mediterranean in 1711, and his swordcame to Horatio Nelson from his uncle. CaptainSuckling. Mrs. Nelson died when her son was is scarcely to be supposed that the memory ofsuch influence as she might have exerted was ofmuch account in the formation of his Nelson Correspondence is very voluminous, asall know who have had occasion to refer to theNicolas Collection ; but nowhere that I can remem-ber does he speak of his mother, save in that brief * Recollections of the Life of the Rev. A. J. Scott, , p. iqi,. M ,/„« ;-• ^;^ I A :\/ irn
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