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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 1 día · Here was built the house which later became the home of Sir Robert Walpole, and portions of which still exist in the Hospital Infirmary. It is presumed that William Jephson built the house when he acquired a lease of the land for 61 years, in or about the year 1690.
Hace 3 días · Walpole was attacked at Strawberry Hill by the cold, about the close of November, 1796, and at the end of that month he removed to his house in Berkeley Square, which he never left again. On this cold supervened an attack of gout.
Hace 3 días · This effigy is said by Walpole (who, by the way, does not mention his authority) to be considered the first example of metal-casting in England. The monument immediately adjoining is that of Queen Eleanor, the wife of Edward I., and merits attention for the extraordinary elegance and beauty displayed in its details.
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).
20 de may. de 2024 · The Petition of Jonathan Robert Hugh Walpole claiming to have succeeded to the Baronies of Walpole of Walpole and Walpole of Wolterton in the Peerage of Great Britain and praying that the Clerk of the Parliaments might be directed to enter the petitioner as Lord Walpole on the register of hereditary peers maintained under Standing ...
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.
