page_title: Horatia Nelson
section_title: Later life and death
hierarchical_section_title: Horatia Nelson / Life / Later life and death
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of Horatia Ward née Nelson (1801-1881) from the Style/Ward Family collection. According to Winifred Gérin, in her 1981 biography of Horatia, this was the last photograph taken of Horatia. Horatia was the daughter of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and Emma, Lady Hamilton.
context_page_description: Horatia Nelson, christened as Horatia Nelson Thompson was the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson.
context_section_description: After her husband's death in January 1859 she had to leave Tenterden. She moved to a house called Elmdene in Church Lane, Pinner and later at Beaufort Villas, Woodridings (a former estate in Pinner), where she died 22 years later; both were near to her son Nelson. On her death, Horatia was buried in Pinner Parish old cemetery, in Paines Lane in Pinner.  Her epitaph, after mentioning her husband and children, runs:
  "...Here rests Horatia Nelson Ward, who died March 6. 1881, aged 80, the beloved daughter of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson and widow of the above-named Revd. Philip Ward."
caption: Horatia Ward née Nelson as an old lady
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