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Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, PC (8 December 1678 – 5 February 1757) was an English diplomat, politician and peer who served as the British ambassador to France from 1724 to 1730. He was the son of Robert Walpole and the younger brother of Robert Walpole , the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
History Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford Grants. The title of Baron Walpole of Walpole in the County of Norfolk was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1723 for Robert Walpole, in honour of and during the lifetime of his father Sir Robert Walpole, the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain, with special remainder, failing male issue, to his brothers Edward and Horace, in ...
Horacio Walpole, IV conde de Orford, conocido comúnmente como Horace Walpole, (24 de septiembre de 1717-2 de marzo de 1797), político, escritor e innovador arquitecto británico. Fue primo del marino Horacio Nelson (Lord Nelson). Escribió la célebre novela El castillo de Otranto, y multitud de cartas que ofrecen una imagen muy ilustrativa ...
On 12 May 1748, Walpole married Lady Rachel Cavendish (1727 – 8 May 1805), the third daughter of the 3rd Duke of Devonshire, and on his death in 1809, his titles passed to their eldest son, Horatio. [1] Lord Orford and his wife had at least two other children: Lady Mary Walpole (born c. 1757), who married Thomas Hussey, 19th Baron Galtrim, on ...
Horatio's own dynastic ambitions. The heirs of Horatio, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, further supplemented the collec tion with portraits of themselves and their families.9 Con sequently the collection inherited by Orford upon his father's death in 1822 encompassed works by eighteenth-century painters including Sir Godfrey Kneller, John ...
Family and Education. b. 12 June 1723, 1st s. of Horatio Walpole of Wolterton, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton. educ. L. Inn 1736; Corpus Christi, Camb. 1741; Grand Tour (Italy 1746-7)1.
Horatio Walpole, first Baron Walpole of Wolterton, (1678-1757) was a diplomatist and politician. He attended Eton College 1693-8 and came up to King's in 1698. This photogravure print of an engraving by I. Simon is after a 1739 painting by Jean Baptiste van Loo.
