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Hace 2 días · El coronel Robert Walpole comenzó a cultivar nabos como forraje para el ganado en su finca de East Anglia en 1673.» ¡Quizás si hubieran cultivado alimentos para la gente en lugar de ganado, el precio del pan no se habría duplicado!
Hace 4 días · Rt. Hon. Robert Walpole (afterwards Earl of Orford) (11th June, 1720). Rt. Hon. Charles Lord Cornwallis (19th April, 1721). Rt. Hon. Spencer Compton ( afterwards Earl of Wilmington ) (15th March, 1721–1722).
Hace 3 días · Overlooking this monument is a beautiful piece of sculpture, also the work of an Italian artist, named Valory, to the memory of Catherine, Lady Walpole. The statue stands upon a square pedestal, upon which is an inscription which states that she was the first wife of Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, and that " 'Horace, her ...
Hace 3 días · In this square died, towards the close of the last century, the eccentric son of Sir John Barnard, sometime alderman of and M.P. for London, and one of those few members whose "price" even Sir Robert Walpole could not find out. This was the more remarkable in his case, as he was extremely penurious.
Hace 5 días · Horace Walpole (1717–1797) is surely the principal benefactor of the Gothic genre. He was a pioneer of the Gothic Revival movement in architecture and interior design, wrote several Gothic stories, including what is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel, and coined the best descriptor of the mood that we now associate with ...
Hace 4 días · Boswell's remark to Sir George Staunton that Johnson 'always took care to put Sir Robert Walpole in the wrong' is illustrated here by Johnson's 'Debate in the Senate of Lilliput' that reported the fall of 'Sir Rub. Walelup' in 1742 (GM 12, 1742, pp. 344, 466-71 and 507-11).
Hace 4 días · Robert Walpole, George I’s Whig Prime Minister, is labelled a Tory and his rule a ‘Tory settlement’ (pp. 21, 38), although the word ‘Tory’ (from the Irish tóraidhe meaning outlaw) was initially a term of abuse for opponents of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Protestant succession.
