Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England. He was a British admiral famous for his participation in the Napoleonic Wars, most notably in the Battle of Trafalgar, during which he was killed. He was responsible for several famous victories that helped to secure British control of the seas, both securing Britain from French invasion and frustrating Napoleon's imperial ambitions.

The first large monument to Nelson was the 43.5 m (143 ft) tall Nelson Monument on Glasgow Green erected less than a year after his death in 1806. The Nelson Monument in Edinburgh was later constructed atop Calton Hill in Edinburgh between 1807 and 1816.

The monumental Nelson's Column (built in the 1840s) and the surrounding Trafalgar Square are notable locations in London to this day, and Nelson's funerary monument can be found in the south transept of St Paul's Cathedral.

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