by Sir Hilgrove Turner
watercolour, circa 1825
NPG 4858
by William James Ward, published by William Sams, after William Corden
mezzotint, published 1830
NPG D38448
by William James Ward, published by William Sams, after William Corden
mezzotint, published 1830
NPG D4657
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thomas hsueh
19 July 2022, 03:46
Like Graham Norton, Edmund Nagle is from Cork, & was 52 yrs in the Royal Navy, outranking Nelson. Becoming Admiral of the Blue, and a Baronet a KCB , and a GCH in time for The Regent's Coronation on the 4th of July, 1821. He knew King William IV 40 yrs, and his father 'Mad'' King George III for 26 yrs & the Regent, George, for almost 30yrs, and was his butler for 20 of those years. Nagle was also ward & heir of The Sublime Edmund Burke MP, & friends of Dictionary author Dr Johnson and others of The Club like Reynolds and Burke's father-in-law Dr Chris Nugent.. He knew the MPs Fox, Pitt, Sheridan, & William-of-the-Rotten-Borough-Congreve (also another of George's butler).
He famously encountered a highwayman on Shooters Hill at Blackheath near Greenwich & was cousin of the famous Regency Era crossdressing highwayman 'Captain Rock' of Cork, aka David Nagle.. His wife Mary Harnage was an heiress from Berkshire & also widow John Lucie Blackman, Nagle became the mortgagee of '' Boarded Hall'' on Barbados because of his wife's bankrupted son , the Director of the Bank of England, Sir George Harnage. Nagle also had 2 very good reasons for a duel with Arthur Wellesley the Duke of Wellington, one a sleight to his cousin Lt. Col. James Nagle of the East India company by Wellesley in 1803, and the usurpation of the previously occupied Parliamentary Borough seats of Trim and West Meath in Ireland by Wellesley's family after the Battle of the Boyne in 1690..