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Hace 1 día · In 1779 the writer and collector Horace Walpole wandered through the rooms of Houghton Hall in Norfolk. The splendid Palladian house was built by his father Sir Robert Walpole – Britain’s first prime minister – to accommodate his superb personal collection of Old Masters, including works by Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Poussin, Luca Giordano and Murillo.
Hace 12 horas · The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, ... Joseph Allen's Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745), 1st Earl of Orford, KG, as Ranger of Richmond Park ...
- 955 hectares (2360 acres)
- 1992
- Biological, historical
- Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hace 1 día · Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835), and twice as Home Secretary (1822–1827, 1828–1830).
- The Viscount Melbourne
- Harrow School
- 1820
Hace 4 días · Strawberry Hill House History . Horace Walpole was born in 1717 and was the third son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first Prime Minister. Horace is known for writing the world’s first Gothic novel, ‘The Castle of Otranto’ and he was a famous name in 18th-century society.
Hace 5 días · Robert Walpole is recognized as the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain, a position he held from 1721 to 1742, making him the longest-serving in British history. While the title of “Prime Minister” was not officially used or recognized during his tenure, Walpole established the foundational precedent for the role as it is understood today.
Hace 3 días · The most popular theory as to why this was, suggests a link to Sir Robert Walpole (‘Bob’ being a diminutive of ‘Robert’), Prime Minister from 1721-1742 and Chancellor of the Exchequer before that. Walpole reduced the Land tax from four shillings to three, then two and finally one shilling, which would have been quite popular at the time.
Hace 4 días · Budgell wrote libels against Sir Robert Walpole in the antigovernmental Craftsman and founded his own weekly, the Bee (1733–35), which ran to 100 numbers, many filled with vainglorious self-justification. Disliked by many, Budgell was criticized by Alexander Pope in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and in The Dunciad.
