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VISCOUNT HORATIO NELSON NELSON (1758-...

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 352 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VISCOUNT HORATIO See also:NELSON NELSON (1758-1805)  , See also:duke of See also:Bronte in See also:Sicily, See also:British See also:naval See also:hero, was See also:born at the parsonage See also:house of Burnham See also:Thorpe, in See also:Norfolk, on the 29th of See also:September 1758 . His See also:father, See also:Edmund See also:Nelson (1722-1802), who came of a clerical See also:family, was See also:rector of the See also:parish . His See also:mother, whose See also:maiden name was See also:Catherine Suckling (1725-1767), was a See also:grand-niece of See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Walpole (1st See also:earl of See also:Orford) . This connexion proved of little or no value to the future See also:admiral, who, in a See also:letter to his See also:brother, the Rev . See also:William Nelson, written in 1784, speaks of the Walpoles as " the merest set of cyphers that ever existed—in public affairs I mean." His introduction to the See also:navy came from his maternal See also:uncle, See also:Captain See also:Maurice Suckling (1725-1778), an officer of some reputation who at his See also:death held the important See also:post of See also:comptroller of the navy . Horatio, who had received a See also:summary, and broken, See also:education at See also:Norwich, Downham and See also:North Walsham, was entered on the " Raisonable " when captain Suckling was appointed to her in 1770 on an alarm Mahommed See also:Ibn Rashid at See also:Hail, and Abdallah Ibn Sa'ud at Riad, ruled in western and eastern See also:Nejd respectively, until 1892, when the former by his victory at `Aneza became emir of all Nejd . His successor, Abdul Aziz Ibn Rashid, was, however, unable to maintain his position, and in spite of See also:Turkish support, sustained a severe defeat in 1905 at the hands of Ibn Sa'ud which for the See also:time, at any See also:rate, restored the supremacy to Riad . No data exist for an accurate estimate of the See also:population; it probably exceeds 1,000,000, of which two-thirds may be settled, and one-third See also:nomad or Bedouin . See also:Palgrave in 1863, perhaps unduly exaggerating the importance of the See also:town population, placed it at nearly See also:double this figure . The See also:revenue of the emir Mahommed Ibn Rashid of Hail, who died in 1897, was estimated by See also:Blunt in 1879 at £80,000, and his See also:expenditure at little more than See also:half that amount . Nolde who visited Hail in 1893 after the emir's See also:conquest of the Wahhabi See also:state, believed that his surplus income then amounted to £60,000 a See also:year, and his accumulated treasure to £1,5oo,000 . AuTH0RrrIEs.—W .

G . Palgrave, Central and Eastern See also:

Arabia (See also:London . 1865) ; See also:Lady See also:Anne Blunt, See also:Pilgrimage to Nejd (London, 1881) ; C . M . Doughty, Arabia Deserta (See also:Cambridge, 1885); C . See also:Huber, See also:Journal d'un voyage en Arabie (See also:Paris, 1891); J . Euting, Reise in inner Arabien (See also:Leyden, 1896) ; E . Nolde, Reise nach inner Arabien (See also:Brunswick, 1895) . (R . A .

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