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ii s. yii. may 3, wis.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 345 granite slab, with Russian shells placed at each of the four corners. On a brass plate in front is inscribed :— This Russian mortar, taken at Hango in 1855, was presented to the Dover Sailors' Home by Captain W. H. Hall, R.N., C.B., and the officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Blenheim. Bath.—On 9 Sept., 1857, the second anni- versary of the fall of Sebastopol, two Russian guns were, amid a scene of much rejoicing, placed in position on the east and west sides of the Queen Victoria obelisk in Victoria Park (see 11 S. ii. 382). They were pre- sented to the city by the Secretary for War, and consigned to the Park Committee by the Deputy Mayor (Wm. Bush, Esq.). Southsea.—On the Common, close by the Castle, is an obelisk erected by the Ports- mouth Debating Society. On the base in front a tablet is thus inscribed :— Erected in memory of the brave Soldiers and Sailors who during the late war with Russia died of their wounds, and are buried in this garrison. Standing by it is a gun brought from Sebastopol, bearing on its muzzle the mark of having been struck by a shot. On the Esplanade are also placed two other Russian guns, captured at Kertch and presented by Lord Panmure. London. —■ Guards' Memorial, Waterloo Place. (See 10 S. ix. 282.) Memorial to Lord Raglan and others. Broad Sanctuary, West- minster. (See 10 S. ix. 481.) John T. Page. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. (To be continued.) Nelson's Christian Name.—The writer of the obituary notice of Horatio, third Earl Nelson, in The Daily Telegraph of 26 Feb., is correct in stating that the hero of Tra- falgar obtained his name from his godfather, Horatio, second Baron Walpole (too many writers confuse father and son, first and second barons). The name descended to the Walpoles from Sir Horatio Vere (1563- 1635), a distinguished soldier, who was created Lord Vere of Tilbury for his services. His daughter, Mary Vere, married Sir Roger Townshend, and named her son Horatio after her father. He was Sir Horatio Townshend (1630-87), a distinguished poli- tician, who, for his activity in promoting the Restoration, was in 1682 created Viscount Townshend. He was the neighbour in Norfolk, and close friend, of Sir Edward Walpole, also a staunch supporter of the Stuarts, who for his zeal in the cause of Charles II., together with his eloquence in. the Restoration Parliament (to which he- was returned M.P. for King's Lynn), was rewarded by being created a Knight of the Bath. By his marriage with Susan, daughter of Sir Robert Crane, Sir Edward had two- sons : Robert, his heir, of whom presently ; and Horatio (so named after his sponsor, Sir Horatio Townshend, in 1664), who entered Lord Peterborough's regiment of horse (the; 3rd Dragoon Guards), and was afterwards- known (when its commanding officer) as- " the black Colonel "—from his swarthy complexion. He married a daughter of the- Duke of Leeds, and died s.p. 1717. His- elder brother, Robert Walpole (1650-1701) of Houghton, was his senior by thirteen years, and by his marriage with Mary,, daughter of Sir Geoffrey BurweU, was father of nineteen children. Of these Sir- Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, the states- man (1676-1745), was the eldest son, and Mary Walpole (1675-1701) the eldest daugh- ter. She married Sir Charles Turner (1666— 1735), Bart., M.P. for Lynn, and was mother of Anne (1691-1768), who married Maurice- Suckling, D.D. (1676-1730), a scion of the family of that name long seated at Woodton in Norfolk. He was Rector of Woodton, and also of Barsham in Suffolk, where their daughter Catherine was born in May, 1725. She was married at Beccles in May, 1749,. to the Rev. Edmund Nelson of Swaffham. Meantime Horatio Walpole, her mother's uncle (younger son of Robert of Houghton), married Magdalen, daughter and heiress- of Peter Lombard of Wollerton and other Norfolk property, including Bumham Thorpe ; and to that living Horatio, first- Baron Walpole, appointed his great-niece's- husband, the Rev. Edmund Nelson, in 1755- At Burnham was born, on 29 Sept., 1758, their fifth son, baptized " Horatio," whose sponsors were Horatio, second Baron Walpole of Wollerton, and Dr. Horace Hamond (1718-86), Rector of Harpley, Norfolk, grandson of Robert Walpole and Mary BurweU. It is interesting to note that the latter couple's youngest daughter, Dorothy Wal- pole (born 1686), married the son of old Sir Horatio Townshend (Charles II.'s vis- count), and revived the name of Horatio in her second son. The story of the gallant, actions of her brother, Galfridus Walpole, the sea captain (whose sword was given to- young Horatio Nelson), together with those of her son, Admiral George Townshend, as-