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Hace 5 días · The government of Great Britain was under the joint leadership of Prime Minister Robert Walpole (in the House of Commons) and Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (in the House of Lords), from 1721 until Townshend departed from the government in 1730.
Hace 11 horas · The Hanoverian monarch King George I oversaw the creation of the office of the Prime Minister when in 1721, Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford became the First Lord of the Treasury. King George II provided a gift of a site of three houses which merged to become No. 10 Downing Street, off Whitehall in 1732.
Hace 1 día · Robert Walpole – in many ways, our first prime minister – came to power on a promise to sort out the financial crash. He was felled by his failure to defend the European balance of power. William Pitt the Younger rose to office with plans to tackle corruption and the national debt, but his premiership was dominated by challenges from Revolutionary and Napoleonic France.
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 5 días · The house was occupied first by its creator, Edward Russell, earl of Orford, and then by Sir Robert Walpole, PaymasterGeneral, from 1714. (fn. 11) Walpole employed Sir John Vanbrugh to enlarge the house, and design stables and coachhouse and garden buildings including the surviving orangery.
Hace 4 días · During the 1970s, Cedar Junction (then known as Walpole) was one of the most violent prisons in the United States. It is located on both sides of the line between the towns of Walpole and Norfolk, and has a South Walpole mailing address (South Walpole is not a political entity).
Hace 2 días · Hugh Walpole. Walpole c. 1920–1925. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (13 March 1884 – 1 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. His skill at scene-setting and ...
