Horatio Nelson
1758 – 1805
English

Admiral. He was the nemesis of Napoleon, an exemplar of bravery, and a defier of social convention.

Contemporaries
1759–1997Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1833William Wilberforce
1703–1791John Wesley
1759–1836Charles Simeon
1743–1805William Paley
1689–1762Lady Mary Montagu
1802–1876Harriet Martineau
1766–1834Thomas Malthus
1800–1859Thomas Macaulay
1792–1866John Keble
1795–1821John Keats
1804–1881Benjamin Disraeli
1788–1824Lord George Byron
1778–1840George Brummell
1775–1817Jane Austen