Wax figures had been displayed in cases near to the burial place of the deceased but by the mid-19th century they too were in the Islip chapel. They joined the older effigies in the Museum after the ...

But now, the remarkably lifelike effigy head that rested atop his coffin ... traditionally made of monarchs and wealthy ...

This is a wax effigy, dressed in some of the clothes which belonged to him. Nelson was buried on 9th January 1806 at St Paul's cathedral in London, after a long journey back to England. His burial ...