Nelson’s State Funeral — Body Brought Home

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. Greenwich Hospital from the Thames. Not a cathedral exterior and not a portrait.

Overview

The return is already on Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview. He died at 4:30 pm on 21 October 1805. His body was preserved in a barrel of brandy and brought home to a state funeral.¹

The Return

This note covers that brandy-cask return and state funeral only. A funeral date, an architect, and a founding year stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

St Paul’s Cathedral — London already records the crypt burial of Collingwood Cuthbert — Biography beside Nelson, in a coffin originally prepared for Cardinal Wolsey. That note reserved the state-funeral sentence and does not expand it. This note does not reopen the crypt.²

The cockpit hours stay on Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Death of Nelson.

Sources

• @white2005nelson
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• @hughes1957collingwood
• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• St Paul’s Cathedral — London

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• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• St Paul’s Cathedral — London
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Footnotes

1. Died 4:30 pm, 21 October 1805; body preserved in a barrel of brandy and brought home to a state funeral: Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview. ↩

2. Crypt burial of Collingwood beside Nelson reserved on St Paul’s Cathedral — London. Do not invent a funeral date, an architect, a founding year, or a Wolsey biography. ↩