Edmund Nelson (priest)

The Rev. Edmund Nelson, portrait by William Beechey, dated 1800. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Edmund Nelson seated in the garden at Burnham Thorpe Rectory, with his young son Horatio dressed as a sailor, and other family members. Royal Museums, Greenwich
Arms of Nelson of Burnham Thorpe: Or, a cross flory sable a bendlet gules.[1] As sculpted on the ledger stone of his wife Catherine Suckling in All Saints' Church, Burnham Thorpe.[2] Admiral Nelson adopted a differenced version of these arms, to which were added augmentations of honour

The Reverend Edmund Nelson (19 March 1722 – 26 April 1802) was a British priest who was Rector of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk and the father of Admiral Horatio Nelson.

  1. ^ Also arms of Nelson of Mawdesley and of Fairhurst, both in Lancashire (pre-17th c.), of unknown kinship to Nelson of Burnham Thorpe (Burke, General Armory, 1884, p.726 [1]). For details of the Nelson family of Mawdesley see: 'Townships: Mawdesley', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 96-100 [2]. See also: Lancs. and Ches. Hist. and Gen. Notes, i, 363, 398; also the account of Fairhurst in Wrightington
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