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Following the victory at the Battle of the Nile, the Drapers’ Company presented the Freedom of the Company to Admiral Lord Nelson. Proud that the nation’s hero was a member, the Drapers’ barge led the other Company barges at Nelson’s funeral procession in January 1806, which took the form of an armada of barges and boats proceeding up the Thames from Greenwich to Whitehall.
In 1805, the Company commissioned from Sir William Beechey a portrait of Lord Nelson.
Several other naval heroes too were made Freemen – Admiral Earl St. Vincent, Admiral Lord Viscount Duncan, Rear-Admiral the Earl of Northesk, Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Strachan and Captain Hardy. |
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