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Catherine, Lady Walpole, wife of Sir Robert Walpole, Viscount Walpole and Baron Houghton, died on 20 August, 1737, was buried in Houghton, Norfolk, and her son Horace had a memorial erected in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey.
To the memory of Catherine Lady Walpole, eldest daughter of John Shorter, Esqr. of Bybrook in Kent and first wife of Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, Horace her youngest son consecrates this monument. She had beauty and wit without vice or vanity, and cultivated the Arts without affectation.
5 de feb. de 2023 · Posted On. February 5, 2023. in. Featured. Catherine, Lady Walpole was the first wife of Britain’s First Prime Minister, Robert Walpole. Advertisement. image credit; Historic UK.
Lady Catherine (Shorter) Walpole, (1682-1737) was the first wife of British politician and Prime Minister Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford from 1700 until her death. She was the daughter of Sir John Shorter, a wealthy merchant from Kent, and the granddaughter of Sir John Shorter, Lord Mayor of London in 1687.
Lady Walpole was the only known daughter of Thomas Skerret, a wealthy London merchant. On her marriage to Walpole in 1738 she paid a dowry of £30,000. Walpole had become estranged from his first wife, Catherine , and took a series of mistresses.
Choice 2: Sir Robert and Lady Walpole by Eccardt and Wootton in a Grinling Gibbons Frame. by Wilmarth S. Lewis “This frame hung in the Blue Bedchamber, as we learn from Walpole’s Description of Strawberry Hill: ‘In a frame of black and gold carved by Gibbons, Sir Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter; small whole lengths; by Eccardt, after Zinke: the hounds and view of Houghton by Wootton.
