A disappointment

Family tradition has it that this chap was some kind of an uncle of mine.

But yesterday, reading the booklet illustrated left a little more carefully than I had managed previously, I discover that I am merely a product of the second marriage of his grandfather, one John Toller who died in 1807, shortly after the twin battles of Trafalgar and Austerlitz. The giant was a product of the first marriage. Much classier.

So just a half-uncle twice removed.

There was consolation in that an aunt of mine, of whom I was fond, got a friendly mention.