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Hace 1 día · Al mismo tiempo, algunos agricultores practicantes estaban recurriendo a nuevos cultivos y nuevos métodos en sus propias tierras. El coronel Robert Walpole comenzó a cultivar nabos como forraje para el ganado en su finca de East Anglia en 1673.»
Hace 5 días · In 1682 government official Sir George Downing undertook the construction of a row of houses in Westminster, near Whitehall Palace. 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.
Hace 3 días · Tutor to Sir Robert Walpole; Chaplain-General in Flanders; defended Marlborough and answered Swift's Conduct of the Allies; Dean of Worcester, 1715–26; Dean of S. Paul's, 1726–40; Bishop of S. Asaph, 1727–31; Bishop of Chichester, 1731–40.
Hace 4 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 2 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 2 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 · 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).
