Legatee of her uncle John Richardson Herbert (q.v.) (who left her £4000), marrying first Dr Josiah Nisbet and then Horatio Nelson. She has an entry in the ODNB as 'wife of Horatio Nelson.' Laughton, J ...

“I am myself a Norfolk Man and Glory in being so” (Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, Great Yarmouth, 1800) In north-west Norfolk there lies a group of villages, the Burnhams. One of these, Burnham Thorpe, has ...

One of these, Burnham Thorpe, has a particular claim to fame: it is the birthplace of Horatio Nelson who would later achieve fame as one of the country’s best known and best loved heroes.

The Academy Award-nominated actor is under fire for a series of tweets that resurfaced Thursday, expressing her views on topics such as race and religion. Read our review of The Brutalist, which ...

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Horatio Alger’s repetitive stories reached ... Many of his papers were destroyed, and the first biography of him turned out to be a hoax. But that wouldn’t keep his work from becoming ...

Many of Alger’s roughly 100 works featured nearly identical plotlines, following often-alliteratively-named boys (like Paul the Peddler and Nelson ... biography of the author, The Lost Life of ...

Multi-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker David Lynch has passed away at the age of 78 after being diagnosed with emphysema following a lifetime of smoking. New movies in theaters - Wolf Man, The Last ...

When he married her in 1791 he was 60 and she was 26. It was in Naples two years later that Emma first met Horatio Nelson, who was then the captain of HMS Agamemnon. He and the Hamiltons became close ...

Scottish kings of the House of Dunkeld were not, as Malcolm suggests in the last line of Macbeth, ‘crown’d at Scone’.

Tonight will continue to be dry with some clear spells to start but cloud will thicken from the west overnight, leaving it largely overcast towards dawn. Fresh to strong winds. Tuesday Tomorrow ...