'The Regent's Jester' tells how Forester's 'Hornblower', & Curtis&Elton's 'Blackadder III' appropriated the naval & courtly career of Admiral Edmund Nagle.
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'The Regent's Jester - Where Hornblower meets Blackadder' reveals that Horatio Hornblower and Edmund Blackadder III are uncredited appropriations of the careers of Sir Edmund Nagle docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Several RN officers r cited as muses for Forester's Hornblower: Thomas Cochrane, George Cockburn, Jeremiah Coghlan, & William Hoste—yet none matched Admiral Edmund Nagle's unique profile as a reputed boxer & accomplished horseman, traits Forester expressly bestowed upon his hero.
As a descendant of 'The Faerie Queene' author, Edmund Spenser, & great (x5, & x4)) nephew of Edmunds Burke & Nagle, I discovered the real Horatio #Hornblower & the real Edmund #Blackadder III, Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle, were one & the same man - whilst exploring my family tree.
Burke by the Jews Elton & Curtis, & BBC TV in Blackadder 3 docs.google.com/document/d/1…
'Contrafibularities and Frasmotic Cant' : Edmund Burke as Edmund Blackadder, and Randolph Quirk as Dr Johnson in 'Ink & Incapability' docs.google.com/document/d/1…
#Blackadder parodies: Edmunds Burke & Nagle/Blackadder; SNP's Alex Salmond/MacAdder; Dr Randolph Quirk/Johnson; Prinz Welf von Hanover/George; Taper Levin/Topper; Terence Stamp/Enoch Mossop; Ariana Huffington/Smedley; "Monty" Montgomery/Wellington; William Congreve MP/Baldrick.
THE REGENT'S JESTER: Where Hornblower meets Blackadder (an historical & literary odyssey exploring the uncredited appropriation of an Irish-born hero of the Royal Navy & the Regent's court-jester by agents of the British government) docs.google.com/document/d/1…
The jester in this print is Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle. The British Museum (using poorly cited data) incorrectly says it's George Canning. Yale University, the Library of Congress, & Brighton Pavilion follow the BM's diktat. I can prove my case, beyond doubt.
Only Hoste served w/ Pellew, & commanded a royal yacht; but he was absent from Quiberon Bay fiasco in 1795, didnt wreck his ship off Brittany, kept no companionship with the Regent, & escorted neither George III or IV into the Celtic Sea & Milford Haven as did Nagle &Hornblower
On June 15 1567, Mary Queen of Scots and her army faced a rebel army on Carberry Hill. The first of her supporters to cowardly slink off was Edmund #Blackadder (in cahoots w/ his own family's sworn enemy, Home of Wedderburn); his name thereafter becoming an epitome for duplicity.
