Free Nelson: Britannia's God of War by Andrew Lambert Page B

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    40 Steffan and Pratt, Byron’s Don Juan; Volume II , 1st canto, 4th verse, p. 23
    41 MacCarthy, Byron , 2002, p. 505
    42 MacCarthy, p. 158
    43 Pocock, Remember Nelson , pp. 178–9
    44 ‘Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Cult of Lord Byron’: exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, January–February 2003
    45 MacCarthy, p. 195
    46 MacCarthy, pp. 85, 296, 349, 383
    47 Bolger, W. and Share, B., And Nelson on his Pillar, 1808 – 1966.
    48 Yarrington, A. The Commemoration of the Hero; 1800 – 1864. Monuments to the British Victors of the Napoleonic Wars , p. 131
    49 Parker, H. Herman Melville; A Biography Volume One 1819 – 1851, p. 147. On a later visit Melville the celebrity saw many more sights – the gallery, paintings and preserved coat at Greenwich (p. 677), including the stump of the Victory ’smast and the Nelson bust placed at Windsor Castle by William IV – and he even passed by the Victory (p. 687). In his wanderings around London he must have seen the column and the sarcophagus in St. Paul’s, reinforcing a heightened sense of meaning. Nelson occupied a prominent place in his imagination.
    50 The Norfolk Pillar.
    51 Captain Alexander Milne to Admiralty 16.9.1838; Milne Papers NMM. MLN/101/12. I am indebted to Professor John Beeler for this reference.
    52 Ramage and Ramage, Roman Art ; Romulus to Constantine ,pp. 88–90
    53 The Mirror 6.7.1839; Add. 38,678. Papers of E. H. Baily, who sculpted the statue
    54 Salmon, ‘The Impact of the Archaeology of Rome on British Architects and their Work c .1750–1840’, esp. pp. 230–5
    55 Crook and Port, The King’s Works VI 1973, pp. 491–4
    56 Taine, H. Notes on England ,p. 9
    57 Nicolas I, p. v
    58 Ibid. p. xvii
    59 Nicolas to Hood 29.8.184; HOO/29 NMM This file contains the Nicolas–Hood and Me Arthur correspondence.
    60 Nicolas to Hood 10.5.1844; HOO/29. Nicolas Colonel Davison 17.12.1844; Eg. 2241 f. 5 makes the same point
    61 Nicolas to Josiah French 12.6.1844; PHB/P/22
    62 Storey, p. 323
    63 Fenwick, HMS Victory , p. 346
    64 Ibid. p. 348.
    65 Weston, N. Daniel Maclise: Irish Artist in Victorian London. Dublin, 2001
    66 The Spectacular Career of Clarkson Stanfield 1793 – 1867: Seaman , Scene Painter, Royal Academician [Stanfield] pp. 108–111, 17–18
    67 Ibid. pp. 163–4
    68 Edgerton, J. Making and Meaning; Turner, The Fighting Temeraire , p. 77
    69 Stanfield, p. 20.
    70 Russett, A. George Chambers , 1803 – 1840 ,pp. 125–7
    71 Ibid. p. 126
    72 Hardy had given the coat to Emma; she left it with Alderman Smith, who loaned her far more money than she ever repaid. It was bought from his widow. George Anson (the Prince’s Treasurer) to Nicolas 28.6.1845. Nicolas VII pp. 351. The blood was John Scott’s.
    73 Stanfield p. 20
    74 Rosenberg, Carlyle and the Burden of History ,p. vii
    75 Carlyle, ‘Nelson’, at p. 77
    76 Ibid. pp. 89–91
    77 Pettigrew, Memoirs of the Life of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson ,I pp. ix–xiii.
    78 Hume to Aberdeen correspondence 1853–54. Add. 43,200 ff. 224–257.
    79 Nelson to Rev Gaskin 4.1.1801; SPCK Archive Website page 1, accessed 12.12.2002. Nelson helped to distribute Society tracts to the fleet, a policy that continued for much of the nineteenth century. Clarke, A History of the SPCK , p. 171

    80 Life of Horatio , Lord Viscount Nelson abridged form, Southey, London SPCK, 1837. Naples is covered on pp. 116–18. Comparison with Southey shows that this contentious passage has been reproduced verbatim. The sanctity and eulogy are on pp. 214–15.
    81 The two large pictures are considered disturbing by Westminster security staff. Weston p. 251.
    82 Weston, p. 243.
    83 Boase, p. 215.
    84 Ibid. p. 218.
    85 Quoted in Weston at p. 249.
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    1 Tennyson to Stead, 14.3.1885; in Lang and Shannon, The Letters of Alfred , Lord Tennyson Volume III ,pp. 311–12. For Tennyson and defence in the early 1850s see Thompson, N. ‘Immortal Wellington: literary tributes to the hero’, in