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| | Horace Walpole |
 | | Horace (or Horatio) Walpole, English politician and man of letters, 4th Earl of Orford -- a title to which he only succeeded at the end of his life, and by which he is little known -- was born in Arlington Street, London, on the 24th of September 1717. |
 | | He was the youngest of the five children of the 1st Earl of Orford (Sir Robert Walpole) by Catherine Shorter, but by some of the scandal-mongers of a later age, Carr, Lord Hervey, half-brother of John, Lord Hervey, afterwards second Earl of Bristol, has been called his father. |
 | | His correspondents were numerous and widespread, but the chief of them were William Cole (1714-1782), the clerical antiquary of Milton; Robert Jephson, the dramatist; William Mason, the poet; Lord Hertford during his embassy in Paris; the countess of Ossory; Lord Harcourt; George Montagu, his friend at Eton; Henry Seymour Conway (1721-1795) and Sir Horace Mann. |
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