[1] Henry Nelson was born in Northampton, the son of The Hon.
[2] He was educated at Downside School and Maredsous Abbey in Belgium and served in the First World War in the Australian Imperial Force and with the Merchant Navy.
He also served during the Second World War, when he gained the rank of Major in the Indian Army;[3][4] he never married.
A tea planter at Madeira, on his death at his home in Spain[5] the title passed to his younger brother, George Nelson, who became the 8th Earl Nelson.
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