Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was a vice admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and frequently as Nelson's successor in commands.

Quotes

• Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
  • Said just before his column engaged the Franco-Spanish line at Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. Reported in A Selection from the Correspondence of Lord Collingwood, ed. G. L. Newnham Collingwood (1828), vol. 1, p. 168