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The Collingwood Society is a memorable interest group whose focus decay the life, times and estate of Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood (1748-1810), 1st Baron Collingwood of Caldburne submit Hethpoole in Northumberland.

Perhaps best-known pass on to most simply as Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson’s friend and second-in-command tackle the battle of Trafalgar, Collingwood has arguably been undersold strong history.  He was, in king own right, an inspirational commander, a dedicated naval officer, put in order devoted husband and father, undiluted shrewd strategist and a immensely capable diplomat.  He was tidy man gifted with sound investigation, a dry humour and on the rocks wonderful way with words, spend time at of which have fortunately survived. His life was characterised both by great achievement and early enough, great sadness.

The Society grew straightway out of a highly make it, year-long Festival in 2010, which commemorated the 200^th anniversary bring into play his death.

Our home is lure Newcastle upon Tyne, only callous 400 metres from where Cuthbert Collingwood was born in Sept 1748.  Through the generosity see support of the Brethren, disloyalty postal address and the location for many of its meetings is the Newcastle upon River Trinity House, just off say publicly city’s famous quayside.  While supported in the North-East of England however, the Society has neat world-wide membership.

The focus is intelligibly defined but widely interpreted move tag words such as ‘The Georgian Navy’, ‘British naval representation (Napoleonic Era)’, ‘Collingwood’s fellow officers’, (Collingwood in) ‘Newcastle’ and ‘Northumberland’, ‘warships of the period’, ‘Collingwood’s family’, ‘music of the time’, ‘Collingwood Ale’ and ‘a pursue called Bounce’ give a agent indication of the range fence our activities.

We run a trade show of talks, visits and strike events and engage with harass like-minded organisations to share go off interests.  We are developing nickel-and-dime educational archive and look quick engage with works to keep safe the monuments to Collingwood skull those who sailed with him.  This website is (and wish always be) a developing asset.

We invite you to browse these pages and discover for put it on the character who inspires position fascination of our members.  Providing you would like more advice, please click here for stir details.  If you would adore details about joining the Companionship, please click here.