Sheltered over London’s popular Trafalgar Square, Nelson’s Column commemorates Admiral Horatio Nelson, saint of the Battle of Trafalgar. It's not just Trafalgar Square that has a landmark to remember Lord Nelson. From a pinnacle in Edinburgh and columns in Glasgow and Montreal to statues in Liverpool and Barbados, there are tributes everywhere on the previous British Empire that commend Admiral Nelson's services safeguarding Britain from the Napoleonic forces of the First French Empire. Just south of Trafalgar Square, Admiralty House on Whitehall served as the authority residence of the first Lords of the Admiralty from its opening in 1788 until 1964.