Adml. Cuthbert (Old Cuddie) Collingwood 1748 - 1810
Adml. Cuthbert (Old Cuddie) Collingwood , 8th child, eldest son. second in command at the battle of Trafalgar. He sent the despatch which informed the King of Nelson's death. Baron Collingwood of Caldburne and Hethpoole in Northumberland. Collingwood was married and had daughters. Collingwood, Cuthbert, Baron Collingwood (1748-1810), naval officer, was born on 26 September 1748 on The Side, Newcastle upon Tyne, the eighth child and eldest son of Cuthbert Collingwood (1712 - 1775), a merchant in Newcastle, and Milcah (1713 - 1788), daughter of Reginald Dobson of Barwise near Appleby, Westmorland. Two more sons followed. His father was of an old but impoverished Northumberland family. C. H. H. Owen, `Collingwood, Cuthbert, Baron Collingwood (1748-1810)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5930, accessed 23 Sept 2005]
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| Born: The Side, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England 24th Oct 1748 | Baptised: St. Nicholas Parish Rec And Non, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England 24th Oct 1748
| | Died: on board the Ville-De-Paris, at sea 7th Mar 1810 | Buried: crypt, St. Paul's cathedral, London, , , England 11th May 1810
| | Family: Collingwood of Eslington |
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