Admiral Lord Nelson was created Duke of Bronte, on which island is Bronte?
Bronte, New South Wales Beach. The suburb has been declared the best of 641 Sydney suburbs by the "Sydney Morning Herald"'s "Good Suburbs Guide". Robert Lowe who later became Viscount Sherbrooke, bought of land from Mortimer Lewis, the English-born Australian Colonial Architect who owned most of the frontage in the area in the 1830s. His home was completed in 1845 and was named "Bronte House", for Lord Nelson, who was the Duke of Bronte, a place in Sicily, Italy. The house, a single-storey stone bungalow located in Bronte Road, is owned by Waverley Council and leased to private tenants who hold open days a
Bronte House by Waverley Municipal Council and is leased to private tenants, who are expected to maintain the house and gardens and open it to the public a few times a year. Since 2001 the garden layout has been directed by Myles Baldwin, a landscape designer. Bronte the suburb takes its name from an early settler's home, that settler being Robert Lowe who named his estate "Bronte" in honour of Horatio Nelson. The name is a direct link to Royal Navy Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson. The King of Naples made Lord Nelson the Duke of Bronte in 1799. Bronte is a town