Background
He succeeded by a special remainder, which included his father"s and sister"s male issue, to one of his younger brother"s baronies (Baron Nelson, of the Nile and of Hilborough in the County of Norfolk, created in 1801) on the latter"s death at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, as well as to the Dukedom of Bronté, of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.