The Burrard Neale Memorial at Walhampton – Legend and Reality
The Burrard Neale monument in Lymington was erected ostensibly to celebrate the career of an admiral well known to the local community, Sir Harry Neale. Examination of his career casts doubt on this being the sole motivation. A wider review of his family, associates, and of the circumstances surrounding the erection of the monument engenders further misgivings about the received narrative handed down to later generations.<br/> Although erected to a member of a local family dominant in Lymington, the effect was rather more to perpetuate the Burrard name, which Sir Harry himself had dropped in 1795, and to bestow self-reflected glory on his heir, his brother George.
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2005 ◽
Vol 47
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pp. 398-402
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