Introduction

Biography

Horatio was the son of Tho­mas Bol­ton of Burn­ham, Nor­folk, and Fran­ces Eliz­abeth Eyre; hus­band of Ma­ry Jane Di­ana Agar; and grand-ne­phew of the fa­mous Ad­mir­al Nel­son. He as­sumed his name on suc­ceed­ing to the ti­tle of 3rd Earl Nel­son, No­vem­ber 1, 1835.

He was edu­cat­ed at Pre­ben­dal School, Eton and Tri­ni­ty Col­lege, Cam­bridge (MA 1844).

Works

In 1857, he ed­it­ed the Sal­is­bury Hymn-Book. He was as­sist­ed in this work by John Ke­ble, who re-wrote some of the old­er hymns and trans­lat­ed oth­ers from the La­tin. This col­lect­ion was re­worked and pub­lished as the Sa­rum Hym­nal in 1868, James Wood­ford and Ed­ward Day­man help­ing with the ef­fort.

Nelson’s oth­er works in­clude:

• A Form of Fa­mi­ly Pray­er, with Spe­cial Of­fic­es for the Sea­sons, 1852
• A Cal­en­dar of Les­sons for Ev­ery Day in the Year, 1857
• Hymn for Saint’s Day and Oth­er Hymns, 1864