Nelson (168 page)

12. The
Racehorse
and the
Carcass
trapped in the pack ice off North East Land, Spitsbergen, on 31 July 1773. The men are exercising by playing leap-frog on the ice. The engraving was made from a watercolour by John Cleverley, based upon a drawing done on the spot by a midshipman of the
Racehorse
.

13. Captain George Farmer (1732–79), under whom Nelson served in the East Indies aboard the
Seahorse
. Painted by Charles Grignion.

14. Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hughes (died 1794), painted by Joshua Reynolds. As a commodore he commanded the East India squadron to which Nelson belonged in 1773–76.

15. Sir Charles Morice Pole (1757–1811), from a painting by James Northcote. As one of the ‘young gentlemen’ of the
Salisbury
, the flagship of Commodore Hughes, he formed a lifelong friendship with Nelson in the East Indies.

16. Captain William Locker (1731–1800), Nelson’s ‘sea-daddy’, portrayed with his wife, Lucy, and their children by Rigaud about 1779. Their eldest daughter (on her mother’s left), the ‘Little Lucy’ for whom Nelson’s first independent command was named, died a nun in Bruges. Left is the oldest boy, William, whom Nelson illicitly entered on the books of the
Badger
and
Hinchinbroke
.

17. Admiral Sir Peter Parker, Bt. (1721–1811), an engraving of the 1799 portrait by Lemuel Abbott. A friend of Captain Suckling, Parker guided Nelson’s earlycareer in the West Indies.

18. Captain Cuthbert Collingwood (1748–1810), portrayed by his friend, Horatio Nelson. Probably done in Windsor, English Harbour, Antigua, in 1785, this only known example of Nelson’s artwork was kept by Mary Moutray and eventually passed to Collingwood’s daughter.

19. Mary Moutray (
c
.1750–1841), sketched by John Downman three years before her amiability, lively conversation and attentiveness fascinated Nelson in English Harbour.

20. English Harbour, by Walter Tremenheere. The view is from the west shore of the inner anchorage, looking southeast across the dockyard. The house on the summit of the hill on the eastern side of the narrows, identified by a flag, may have been Windsor or another property later built on the same side.

21. William IV (1765–1837), formerly Prince William, Duke of Clarence, who cast a unique shadow over Nelson’s service in the Leeward Islands.

22. Frances, Lady Nelson (1761–1831), sketched by Daniel Orme about 1798.

23. The house of William Suckling (10), Nelson’s uncle, in Kentish Town, drawn by James Frederick King, whose father owned the Castle Tavern to the right. The property was a favourite resort of Nelson and his wife, and tradition credited the captain with planting some of the shrubs and box trees in the garden.