Lily Style

About Lily Style

Lily Style is the direct descendant of famed lovers Admiral Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton and also Nelson's brother-in-law, George Matcham (because their grandchildren married).

Lily is the founder of Emma Hamilton Society and writes regularly for Nelson-related publications.


She is also a keen genealogist with an interest in piecing together real human stories lying behind dry facts. One of these stories is of her 4th great-grandfather, George Matcham, whose story she's traced from his mid eighteenth century birth in East India Company controlled Bombay through to his intimate involvement with Nelson and Emma's rise and fall.

Lily Style's bibliography

A most unsettled man (biography) Historium Press, 2024

Somerswood (short story) 2023

The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 7 (historical article) Seaforth Publishing, 2022

The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 6 (historical article) Seaforth Publishing, 2021

The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 5 (historical article) Seaforth Publishing, 2020

Horatia's secret (historical fiction) 2020

The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 3 (historical article) Seaforth Publishing, 2018