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Thomas Ashton, 1756 mezzotint by James Macardell, after Joshua Reynolds. Life. Ashton was the son of Dr. Ashton, usher of Lancaster grammar school. He was educated at Eton College, where a group of friends formed—Ashton, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole, and Richard West—who called themselves the "Quadruple Alliance".
Horace Walpole ritratto da Sir Joshua Reynolds (1756). Horace Walpole, 4º Conte di Orford (Londra, 24 settembre 1717 – Londra, 2 marzo 1797), è stato uno scrittore inglese, considerato il fondatore della letteratura gotica, autore de Il castello di Otranto, primo romanzo horror propriamente detto, e attivo in diversi ambiti e con vari interessi.
Peterhouse, Cambridge. Eton College. Plaque marking Thomas Gray's birthplace at 39 Cornhill, London. Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751.
3rd Baron Walpole of Houghton 16th Baron Clinton 1730–1791: Edward Walpole 1737–1771: Horatio Walpole 2nd Earl of Orford 5th Baron Walpole of Walpole 3rd Baron Walpole of Wolterton 1752–1822: Maj.Gen. Hon. George Walpole 1758–1835: Thomas Walpole 1755–1840: Horatio Walpole 3rd Earl of Orford 6th Baron Walpole of Walpole 4th Baron ...
He rose through the ranks to lieutenant-colonel in 1847, when he was appointed to the staff as deputy-adjutant and quartermaster-general at Corfu. He remained there until 1856, having been promoted to colonel in the army in 1854. In 1857 Walpole went to India to take part in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny.
Horace Walpole (né Horatio ), 4e comte d'Orford, né le 24 septembre 1717 à Londres et mort le 2 mars 1797 à Londres, plus jeune fils de Robert Walpole (Premier ministre britannique), est un homme politique, écrivain et esthète britannique. Auteur en 1764 du Château d'Otrante, qui inaugure le genre du roman gothique ( gothic tale en ...
Maria Walpole. Retrato por Thomas Gainsborough, 1779. Maria, duquesa de Gloucester y Edimburgo nacida Maria Walpole (10 de julio de 1736-22 de agosto de 1807) fue la condesa Waldegrave de 1759 a 1766 como la esposa de James Waldegrave, segundo conde de Waldegrave, y miembro de la familia real británica desde 1766 como la esposa del príncipe ...
