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Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter. Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a writer, politician, and architectural innovator. He was the youngest son of British Prime Minister Robert Walpole and the cousin of Lord Nelson. The pseudo-Gothic castle which he built at ...
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford. Robert Walpole was born into minor Norfolk nobility in 1676. He was the fifth child of 17, and third son. He was educated at Eton where he befriended a few who would be politically useful to him, including Charles Townshend. It was originally intended that he would go into the Church, but whilst he was ...
When Sir Robert was made the 1st earl of Orford in 1742, Lord Walpole also became the courtesy title of the eldest son of the earl of Orford. So George, later 3rd earl of Orford, was known as Lord Walpole between the death of his grandfather Sir Robert in 1745 and his succession to the earldom in 1751. In 1756, Horatio Walpole, brother to Sir ...
The Countess of Orford was thus granddaughter of Sir Robert Walpole, and brought his line of descent into these related earls. His grandfather, the 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, was Sir Robert's brother. Political career. Orford succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for King's Lynn in 1809, and the held the seat until 1822.
Volume 1 of MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, William Coxe Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford: With Original Correspondence and Authentic Papers, Never Before Published, William Coxe: Author: William Coxe: Publisher: T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, 1798: Original from
Hace 5 días · Robert Walpole (Earl of Orford) was/painted for Lord Bessborough by I. B. Vanloo in 1740 &/given to Lord Walpole by Lord.B. 1785. This portrait back to top Vertue, 1738, refers to a portrait by Vanloo whose 'great Success is likenes, naturaly without flaterry - or raising the character. but in that its remarkable that S r .
18 de ago. de 2023 · Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
