A CONTEMPORARY OF NELSON.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 15

A CONTEMPORARY OF NELSON.

Among the rcmaikaLJ centsnr riant. who live in or rcear Lou lon (*ays Lloyd's Weekly), perliaps "the luosi iioiablb is Joseph Stucfcay, a veteran who hac entered upon his 108 th yeijr, wlio became a patient in the St. Panama Infiimary or. the 2nd March. He was v.-alkincf along a elireet in Hampstcad, when a sailor, who professed to know him, struck him »vi(.h a «lick, as a result of which he is beinj; treated in the iufiimitiy for an injury to A\c hip. Stuckey's bcd-caid gives liis occupatioii as U crossing-sweeper, nrd it appeara thai alter a rno^t eventful "life ho wan compelled tc clean a crossing for his living. He w.is born at Newport, Monmoath, on Chrktmas Eve, 1799, nnd was chTi&tonei at the We«leyan Chapel in that town. He was put to suil-mriking, and afterwards went to xea. At thft iirne c/f the Chimcan War he joined the Navy as a seurnan ttokrr, and in tho 16-gun fn^ato Miranda v.crit to the Crimea, where he took part r.i crvpivl r.nvi'l operations. He is piclnbly the only man living who b - iw Admiral N«li?on, and he has a vivH lcco'lcttion of the etiriirig times that led up ta tho, buttle of Waterloo. Sluek<?y''s appetite ii Tcinark.l Ic. His hearing is good, nnd bo finds it riccctsivy to lesoit !Of.S))o'.t I \c!.;s only v.-hen lvo rends. Urfoio lie vim broiii'nt to the St. P.tncras Irfiimnry lio livrd jilono in Ciiit r<!o;n. The polish aliened liii.i "i> a week, r-rd he j.aitl 3s 3d of tlii': amo-.uit iv y;nt Tlio remt ind-r v. as «.u^!iifiit' l d l>y the sni'jll contribatioiis ot iriei'ds, and thus bo was rnablad to live frugally without f;oii)X irit'i fnr- woikiionse. This, lie chclait"<, h^ never vill do r-o lorn; .is lie j abl-3 to stay out of "the house."'