Nelson & His World

Discussion on the life and times of Admiral Lord Nelson
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:58 am 
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Walter Sichel’s biography of Lady Hamilton quotes a poem in her memory, published in 1831, written by ‘Nelson’s Dr Beatty, who had himself known and liked her, after visiting her grave on his return from attending William IV and his wife in Germany’.

I was curious to know more about Dr Beatty’s poetic gifts, and wondered where this poem had been published.

A little Googling turned up a puzzle. I found no mention of Nelson’s Beatty as poet. However, I came across another medico-poet, a Dr William Beattie, (1793-1875) friend of the poet Thomas Campbell. A biographical note about him in ‘The Collected Letters of Joanna Bailey, Vol 2’ (googlebooks) notes that he was a frequent contributor to many journals and that ‘he had accompanied the Duke [later William 1V] and Duchess of Clarence to Germany.’

Could Sichel have attributed the poem to the wrong doctor?


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