Nelson–Hamilton Affair — Press Sensation

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. An orlop cockpit prepared as a surgery. No people. Not a portrait.

Overview

The affair is already on Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview and Hamilton Emma — Biography. It scandalised London society and fascinated the press. He fathered one daughter, Horatia Nelson — Biography, with Emma.¹

The Sensation

This note covers that press sensation only. Naples stays off. A newspapers-and-pamphlets room and a propaganda-media room stay empty.

The Nelson biography already says his personal life fed the propaganda machine as much as his battles did. This note does not open that sentence into a second room.²

In the cockpit of HMS Victory — Overview on 21 October 1805, Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory was asked to take care of Lady Hamilton. Those hours stay on Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Death of Nelson. Verbatim lines live on @beatty1807nelson.

Sources

• @white2005nelson
• @beatty1807nelson
• @knight2005pursuit
• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• Hamilton Emma — Biography

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Communications_Signals
• Press_Information_Index

Same Subject

• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• Hamilton Emma — Biography
• Horatia Nelson — Biography
• Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Death of Nelson

Cross-Domain

• HMS Victory — Overview
• Age of Sail — Era Overview
• Age of Sail — Chronological Timeline

Footnotes

1. Affair scandalised London society and fascinated the press; one daughter, Horatia: Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview and Hamilton Emma — Biography. ↩

2. Personal life fed the propaganda machine as much as his battles did: same Nelson biography. Do not write Naples. Do not invent a newspaper title or a circulation figure. Beatty William — Surgeon HMS Victory remains a red-link. Quotes stay on @beatty1807nelson. ↩