Admiral Lord Nelson's Cabin Chair

Posted: 16 Oct, 2018

Admiral Lord Nelson visited Bath on several occasions. He came to take the waters hoping for a cure for the bouts of malaria from which he had suffered since contracting the disease in the Indian Ocean, and the dysentery and yellow fever contracted during the ill fated attempt to capture strategic towns in Nicaragua during the American War of Independence. In 1780, severely weakened by illness,…