In 1930, Lord Nelson purchased the panelling of the Captain's Cabin of HMS Ganges, built in 1821, which was being broken up, installing the panelling in the main top floor room at Trafalgar Park.
During World War II the North and South Wings of Trafalgar Park, the family seat, were occupied by tenants with Thomas Nelson and his younger brother Edward Agar Nelson living in the main house.
[5] In 1946 he complained to the Attlee Government that much of the £5,000 a year pension granted to his ancestor the 1st Earl was being spent on maintaining the house.
The Treasury proposed to create a Bill ending the pension but which would allow the Nelson family to sell the estate, which had been purchased with money raised by public subscription for the descendants of Horatio Nelson.
He never married and on his death the title passed to his younger brother Edward, the 5th Earl Nelson.