Walpole

(wôlpōl, wäl-)

  1. Walpole, Horace 4th Earl of Orford (born Horatio Walpole) 1717-97; Eng. writer
  2. Walpole, Sir Robert 1st Earl of Orford 1676-1745; Eng. statesman: prime minister (1721-42): father of Horace

See Walpole in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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.

, 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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