Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Wednesday, 18 December 2024

A contemporary letter describing the death of Nelson


The Daily Telegraph reports on the sale of a letter written a few days after the battle of Trafalgar which describes the wounding and subsequent death of Lord Nelson. The author, who was on another Royal Navy vessel and not the Victory itself ascribes other last words to the Admiral than the famous “Kiss me Hardy”. 

The letter is being sold in New York, and it would be good to think it might return to a collection in this country.



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