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| | Random House : Book extract from Nelson Volume 1 |
 | | His paternal grandfather and two Nelson uncles lived off the rich Norfolk soil; two of Edmund’s cousins, offspring of the aforementioned uncles, became clergymen, and his father, Edmund Nelson senior, was himself an ecclesiastic, educated at Eton and Cambridge. |
 | | Edmund senior enjoyed a number of Norfolk preferments in his day, including the rectory of East Bradenham (where Edmund junior was born on 19 March 1722); the vicarage of Sporle and rectory of Little Palgrave, presented by Eton College in 1729; and the rectory of Hilborough, acquired five years later. |
 | | The River Burn stole northwesterly to the sea through sandhills and salt flats, and Burnham Thorpe was situated three or so miles inland, at the head of a finger-like marsh estuary that had once been navigable to barges at high tide. |
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