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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 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 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 ...
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 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.
