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Hace 5 días · Es descendiente de Sir Robert Walpole, el primer ciudadano recibir el cargo de Primer Ministro de Reino Unido. Por otro lado, entre sus antecedentes, se encuentran miembros de Rohschild y la...
Hace 17 horas · 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 · Fifty years later King George II offered one of them, then known as 5 Downing Street (renumbered in 1779), as a personal gift to Sir Robert Walpole, the first lord of the Treasury. After employing architect William Kent to join the house with a larger one behind it, Walpole took up occupancy in 1735 on the condition that the building also be ...
Hace 17 horas · Strawberry Hill House is a stunning example of Gothic Revival architecture, showcasing a unique blend of gothic elements and Walpole‘s personal artistic vision. The house features an array of architectural details reminiscent of medieval gothic structures, including pointed arches, vaulted ceilings, ornate tracery, and decorative pinnacles.
Hace 3 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 the genre ...
Hace 5 días · In successive chapters, then, we are taken through the early years of the king's reign; his relationship with Sir Robert Walpole, first minister when George came to the throne, who eventually fell in February 1742, despite the king's wish to keep him in office; the crisis years of the War of the Austrian Succession, the Forty-Five Rebellion ...
Hace 5 días · Once his subject succeeds to the throne, Thompson exhibits an healthy scepticism over the received narrative that it was Queen Caroline’s support which secured Robert Walpole’s continuation in the Treasury, preferring the view of the then Lord Chancellor, Peter King, that it was consequent on Walpole’s immensely hard work and constant ...
