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Nelson Historical Society Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, October 1974

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Nelson—"The new Lord Nelson plays it cool."… from "Post Man's Diary", South Wales Evening Post, Swansea, Glam.

The new Lord Nelson will still be George to his friends.

The Hon. George Nelson, who inherited one of Britain's most famous titles on the death of his brother, spent yesterday unsure of many things, but certain of one. That the title won't change him.

In fact he went to work in his Swansea accountant's office and, after a heady day of TV and press interviews, stayed modest enough to say: "I think people are impressed by the title—I'm very proud of it myself, but it doesn't make any difference really." Sentiment

Lord Nelson, ex-licensee of the Hanbury in the city centre, is great-great-great nephew of the renowned Horatio Nelson, England's heroic victor of the Nile and Trafalgar.

Apart from the title, however, all that has been passed down from his illustrious ancestor to the present Lord Nelson is a silver snuff box.

A Government pension stopped many years ago and the 3,411-acre estate with its 18th century mansion in Wiltshire, was sold in 1948 to pay off mounting death duties.

Lord Nelson knew the family home well.

"I lived there for long periods as a boy," he told me. "It was a beautiful place and a great shame we couldn't keep it. Just about everything has been sold over the years."…

Lord Nelson and his Swansea-born wife, Wynn, live in Bishopston.

August 10, 1972