Comment by klelatti
5 months ago
> He was named "Horatio" after his godfather Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (third creation), (1723–1809), the first cousin of his maternal great-grandmother Anne Turner (1691–1768). Horatio Walpole was a nephew of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (second creation) the de facto first prime minister of Great Britain. [1]
Horatio Nelson
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_N...
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