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303: No Such Thing As Suckling's Column

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Horatio Nelson's Suckling

Suckling was one of the last brothers born. And he was not very impressive, I think. There's almost no references to him in biographies of Nelson. One of them just describes him as the feckless suckling. He died quite young. Horatio wrote to his wife in 1799, I am not surprised at my brother's death. Three are dead younger than myself. That was his response to the death of his brother. Poor guy. Dead for ages brought back finally via Cariad.

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