Beatty Authentic Narrative — 1807

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. An orlop cockpit. Not a facsimile of Beatty’s pages.

Overview

The book is already the citation card @beatty1807nelson. William Beatty, surgeon of HMS Victory — Overview, published Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson in 1807.¹

The Book

This note covers that 1807 narrative as a document only. A full Beatty biography, later Physician of Greenwich Hospital beyond the card, and Walter Burke or Alexander John Scott as their own notes stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. Verbatim lines stay on the citation card, not here.

It was published with Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory still alive and within two years of the Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview. The card records the London imprint: T. Davison for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 91 pages.²

Sources

• @beatty1807nelson
• Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Death of Nelson
• Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Primary_Documents
• Memoirs_Diaries_Index

Same Subject

• @beatty1807nelson
• Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Death of Nelson
• HMS Victory — Overview
• Beatty William — Surgeon HMS Victory

Cross-Domain

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

Footnotes

1. Eyewitness narrative by Victory’s surgeon, published 1807: @beatty1807nelson. ↩

2. Hardy still alive; within two years of the battle; T. Davison for T. Cadell and W. Davies; 91 pages: same card. Do not paste verbatim quotations into this note. Do not invent a later career beyond the card. ↩