Walpole (redirected from Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford)

Wal·pole  (wôlpl, wl-), Horace or Horatio. Fourth Earl of Orford. 1717-1797.

British writer and historian whose correspondence and memoirs provide valuable information about his era. He wrote The Castle of Otranto (1764), considered the first Gothic novel in English.

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Walpole, Sir Robert. First Earl of Orford. 1676-1745.

English politician who as first lord of the treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1715-1717 and 1721-1742) led the Whig administration and is regarded as Britain's first prime minister.

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Walpole [ˈwɔːlˌpəʊl]

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1. (Biographies / Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797) M, British, WRITING: writer) Horace, 4th Earl of Orford. 1717-97, British writer, noted for his letters and for his delight in the Gothic, as seen in his house Strawberry Hill and his novel The Castle of Otranto (1764)

2. (Biographies / Walpole, Sir Hugh (Seymour) (1884-1941) M, Britishnational of birth: New Zealand, WRITING: novelist) Sir Hugh (Seymour). 1884-1941, British novelist, born in New Zealand: best known for The Herries Chronicle (1930-33), a sequence of historical novels set in the Lake District

3. (Biographies / Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745) M, English Whig, POLITICS: statesman) Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford, father of Horace Walpole. 1676-1745, English Whig statesman. As first lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1721-42) he was effectively Britain's first prime minister

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Noun	1.	Walpole - English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797) Fourth Earl of Orford, Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole
	2.	Walpole - Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745) First Earl of Orford, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole