Viscount horatio nelson 1758-1805

The National Maritime Museum has Nelson artifacts. He would have had dealings with the Navy Office housed in what is now Somerset House. There is a plaque on 147 New Bond Street. He lived for a time with the Hamiltons at 'Paradise Merton'. The site of the house has been built on but Merton retains many Nelson associations. There is a small display at the Wandle Museum. His body on return from Trafalgar laid in state in the Painted Hall of the Naval Hospital now in the care of the Greenwich Foundation. He has a wax effigy in the Undercroft Museum of Westminster Abbey but was buried in a large tomb in St Pauls Cathedral. His statue stands on top of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square. There is a statue outside the Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich. There are a number of pubs which commemorate Nelson and his associations.

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