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They had three children: Lady Elizabeth Waldegrave (1760–1816) who married her paternal first cousin the 4th Earl Waldegrave . Three sons became Earls Waldegrave and all succeeding earls are descended from this marriage.
Maria Walpole era la hija ilegítima de Sir Edward Walpole y Dorothy Clement. Su abuelo fue Robert Walpole, conde de Orford, considerado el primer primer ministro del Reino Unido (1721-1741).
Maria had three daughters with Waldegrave: Anne Horatio Waldegrave (1759–1801, who married Lord Hugh Seymour); Elizabeth Laura , countess of Waldegrave (1760–1816, who married George, 4th earl of Waldegrave); and Charlotte Maria Waldegrave (1761–1808, who married George Henry, duke of Grafton).
Maria Walpole was born 3 July 1739 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom to Edward Walpole (c1706-1784) and Dorothy Clement (c1715-) and died 23 August 1807 Brompton of unspecified causes. She married James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave (1715-1763) 15 May 1759 in Pall Mall .
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Walpole was born in Houghton, Norfolk, in 1676. One of 19 children, he was the third son and fifth child of Robert Walpole, a member of the local gentry and a Whig politician who represented the borough of Castle Rising in the House of Commons. His wife Mary Burwell was the daughter and heiress of Sir Geoffrey Burwell of Rougham, Suffolk. Horatio W...
Business success
As a young man, Walpole had bought shares in the South Sea Company, which monopolised trade with Spain, the Caribbean, and South America. The speculative market for slaves, rum, and mahogany spawned a frenzy that had ramifications throughout Europe when it collapsed. However, Walpole had bought at the bottom and sold at the top, adding greatly to his inherited wealth and allowing him to create Houghton Hall as seen today.[a]
Political career
Walpole's political career began in January 1701 when he won a seat in the English general election at Castle Rising in Norfolk. He left Castle Rising in 1702 so that he could represent the neighbouring borough of King's Lynn, a pocket boroughthat would re-elect him for the remainder of his political career. Voters and politicians nicknamed him "Robin". Like his father, Robert Walpole was a member of the Whig Party. In 1705, Walpole was appointed by Queen Anne to be a member of the council fo...
Stanhope–Sunderland ministry
Queen Anne died in 1714. Under the Act of Settlement 1701, which excluded Roman Catholics from the line of succession, Anne was succeeded by her second cousin, the Elector of Hanover, George I. George I distrusted the Tories, who he believed opposed his right to succeed to the Throne. The year of George's accession, 1714, marked the ascendancy of the Whigs who would remain in power for the next fifty years. Robert Walpole became a Privy Councillor and rose to the position of Paymaster of the...
Soon after Walpole returned to the Cabinet, Britain was swept by a wave of over-enthusiastic speculation which led to the South Sea Bubble. The Government had established a plan whereby the South Sea Company would assume the national debt of Great Britain in exchange for lucrative bonds. It was widely believed that the company would eventually reap...
Lord Orford was succeeded as prime minister by Lord Wilmington in an administration whose true head was Lord Carteret. A committee was created to inquire into Walpole's ministry but no substantial evidence of wrongdoing or corruption was discovered. Though no longer a member of the Cabinet, Orford continued to maintain personal influence with Georg...
Walpole exercised a tremendous influence on the politics of his day. The Tories became a minor insignificant faction, and the Whigs became a dominant and largely unopposed party. His influence on the development of the uncodified constitution of Great Britain was less momentous, even though he is regarded as Great Britain's first prime minister. He...
Catherine Shorter
On 30 July 1700, Walpole married Catherine Shorter (1682-1737), the eldest daughter and co-heiress of John Shorter of Bybrook in Ashford, Kent (the son of Sir John Shorter (1625–1688), Lord Mayor of London) by his wife Elizabeth Philipps (born c. 1664), a daughter of Sir Erasmus Philipps, 3rd Baronet. She was described as "a woman of exquisite beauty and accomplished manners". Her £20,000 dowry was, according to Walpole's brother Horatio Walpole, spent on the wedding, christenings and jewels....
Maria Skerritt
Prior to the death of his first wife Walpole took on a mistress, Maria Skeritt (d. 1738), a fashionable socialite of wit and beauty, with an independent fortune of £30,000, the daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Skeritt (d. 1738) (aliter Skerret, Skeritt, etc), a wealthy Irish merchant living in Dover Street, Mayfair, London. They had been living together openly in Richmond Park and Houghton Hall since before 1728, and married at some time before March 1738. She died on 4 June 1739 following...
Black, Jeremy (2001). Walpole in Power. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7509-2523-5.Blick, Andrew, and George Jones. At Power's Elbow: Aides to the Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to David Cameron(Biteback Publishing, 2013)Courtney, William Prideaux (1911). "Orford, Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 20 (11th ed.). pp. 254–256.Dickinson, Harry T. (1972) "Walpole and his critics," History Today(3 June 1972), Vol. 22 Issue 6, pp 410–419 online.Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford at the National Portrait Gallery, LondonThis lady bore him five children but, although a faithful lover, he never married her because he feared the opposition of his father, Sir Robert. The surviving children, three daughters, were, however, brought up as Walpoles and recognised as such by the family.
24 de ago. de 2019 · Lady Maria Walpole was born illegitimately in 1725. 1,2 She was the daughter of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford and Maria Skerret. 1 She married Colonel Charles Churchill, son of Lt.-Gen. Charles Churchill and Anne Oldfield. She died in 1801. 2 Her married name became Churchill.
