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Sir Edward Walpole KB PC (Ire) (1706 – 12 January 1784) was a British politician, and a younger son of Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister from 1721 to 1742.
Walpole, Edward (1706–84), MP and chief secretary for Ireland (1737–41), was born in Frogmore, Berkshire, England, second son of Sir Robert Walpole, politician and landowner, and his first wife Catherine (née Shorter).
Edward was the second son of the first Prime Minster of Great Britain, Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, and his first wife, Catherine daughter of John Shorter of Bybrook in Kent. He was a man of considerable ability, but did not trouble to take the place in the World to which his talents entitled him.
Admitted 1680 aged 14. MA 1687; Fellow; died aged 25. An ancestor of Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister 1721-42.
Among the first to be won over was Edward Walpole, whom he received into the Roman church; at the same time Gerard induced him to sell the reversion of the manor of Tuddenham for a thousand marks.
The Sir Edward Walpole and Dorothy Clement Family Papers hold more than six hundred letters exchanged during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries between members of the Walpole and Clement families, primarily the children, grandchildren, siblings, nieces, and nephews of Sir Edward Walpole and his common-law wife Dorothy Clement.
Walpole was an influential figure serving for twenty years as the first British Prime Minister. He sustained power for the Whig party, established Downing Street as home of the Prime Minster, won favour with the Crown and negotiated with great skill and panache.
