Collingwood, Lord (1750-1810), Cuthbert Collingwood, was a British admiral who played a prominent part in the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France. He served as second-in-command to the British Admiral Horatio Nelson at the decisive Battle of Trafalgar, off the coast of Spain in 1805. The British victory over the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar crushed Napoleon’s naval power and ended his hopes of invading the United Kingdom. Nelson was wounded and died during the battle. Collingwood succeeded Nelson in command of the Fleet and remained in this post until his death at sea on March 7, 1810. He was born on Sept. 26, 1750, at Newcastle upon Tyne in northeast England and is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.
