[333] Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson (1758-1805) destroyed the French fleet in the battle known indifferently as the Battle of Aboukir or the Nile (1 August 1798). For this he was created Baron Nelson by the King of England and Duke of Bronte by the King of Naples.--T. [334] Emma Lady Hamilton (1763-1815), _née_ Lyon or Hart, the beautiful mistress of Charles Greville and of his uncle, Sir William Hamilton, foster-brother to George IV., and Minister at Naples from 1764 to 1800. Sir William Hamilton married Emma Hart in 1791. Her intimacy with Nelson began in 1793, and their daughter Horatia was born in 1801.--T. [335] 21 October 1805.--T. [336] At that time the residence of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.--T. [337] The Farnesina Palace, in Rome, where Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) died.--T. [338] Sir William Herschel (1738-1822), the famous astronomer, had discovered the planet Uranus in 1781.--T. [339] Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), Sir William's sister, assisted him in recording his observations.--T. [340] King Alfred (849-901), known as the Great, is said to have founded the University of Oxford in 872.--T. [341] Thomas Gray (1716-1771).--T. [342] _Elegy_, I.--T. [343] _Purgatorio_, VIII. 5.--B. [344] _Ode_, 11-15, 18-21, 28-30, 51-55.--T. [345] _Cymbeline_, III. 4.--T. [346] Queen Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1768-1821) married the Prince of Wales, afterwards King George IV., in 1795. The Prince and Princess of Wales separated by mutual consent in 1796, after the birth of Princess Charlotte.--T. [347] Charles James Fox (1749-1806) entered Parliament for Midhurst in 1768; held office under North, but left him and joined Burke in his opposition to the American War; was Foreign Secretary in the Rockingham Ministry; joined North's short-lived Coalition Ministry of 1783; and during the next fourteen years distinguished himself as the great and eloquent opponent of Pitt's Government. On Pitt's death, in 1806, he again came into office as Foreign Secretary, but himself died shortly after.--T. [348] Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751-1816) had produced all his plays and was owner of Drury Lane Theatre when he entered Parliament in 1780 under Fox's patronage. In 1782 he became Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in Rockingham's Ministry. His two most famous speeches were those impeaching Warren Hastings in 1787 and supporting the French Revolution in 1794.--T. [349] William Wilberforce (1759-1833), the antagonist of the slave-trade, entered Parliament as Member for Hull in 1780. He first introduced his Abolition Bill in 1789; it was passed by the House of Commons in 1801 and by the House of Lords in 1807.--T. [350] William Wyndham, first Lord Grenville (1759-1834), entered Parliament in 1782. In 1789 he was Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1790 Pitt made him Home Secretary and a peer; in 1791 he was Foreign Secretary, and Premier from 1806 to 1807.--T.