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21 de ene. de 2014 · The Anecdotes of painting and Catalogue of engravers were compiled from manuscripts of George Vertue
The heirs of Horatio, 1st persal, the collection was one of considerable quality, although Baron Walpole of Wolterton, further supplemented the collec on a much smaller scale than those both of his ancestors and tion with portraits of themselves and their families.9 Con notable contemporaries such as the 4th Marquess of Hertford. sequently the ...
ORFORD, ROBERT WALPOLE, 1st Earl of (1676-1745), generally known as Sir Robert Walpole, prime minister of England from 1721 to 1742, was the third but eldest surviving son of Robert Walpole, M.P., of Houghton in Norfolk, by Mary, only daughter and heiress of Sir Jefl'ery BurweU, of Rougham, in Suffolk. The father, a jolly old squire of Whig poHtics who revelled in outdoor sport and the ...
Walpole was a great socialite and his collected letters are full of gossip and information about the most fashionable figures of the eighteenth century. He succeeded in 1791 as 4th Earl of Orford.
Horatio [Walpole], 3rd Earl of Orford. born. 14 Jun 1783. mar. 23 Jul 1812 Mary Fawkener (b. 1788; d. 4 Feb 1860), 1st dau. by his second wife of William Augustus Fawkener, of Brocton Hall, co. Shropshire, a Clerk to the Privy Council. children. 1. Hon Horatio William Walpole, later4th Earl of Orford. 2.
Name of creator. Walpole family; 1678-; Baron Walpole of Wolterton, formerly Earl of Orford (second creation) (1678-) Biographical history. Horatio Walpole (1678-1757), first Baron Walpole of Wolterton, was brother to England's first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole (d. 1745). A diplomat, he served as ambassador in France and Holland.
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman and Whig politician who, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader of the House of Commons, is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great ...
