COUNTESS OF JERSEY
TALKED WITH NELSON'S
SERVANT
Not many people can be living still who have talked with men who fought at Trafalgar. One of the few is the Dowager Countess of Jersey, D.B.E. Writing to "The Times" recently, she recalled a visit to Greenwich Hospital when she was a child, with her father, Lord. Leigh, and the talk with an old pensioner who had been Nelson's servant at the time of the battle. Later, at Avignon with her parents, she met a Frenchman, then a guide at the Palace of Popes, who had fought at Trafalgar, and been a prisoner of war in England. Lady Jersey, who is now i ninety-one years of age, spent three [years in New South Wales when her late husband was Governor there from 1890 to 1893.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 72, 21 September 1940, Page 17
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