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	Robert Walpole Orford - LoveToKnow 1911
		ROBERT WALPOLE ORFORD, 1sT Earl Of (1676-1745), generally known as SIR Robert Walpole, prime minister of England from 1721 to 1742, was the third but eldest surviving son of Robert Walpole, M.P., of Houghton in Norfolk, by Mary, only daughter and heiress of Sir Jeffery Burwell, of Rougham, in Suffolk.
		Walpole obtained the lucrative if unimportant post of paymastergeneral of the forces in the administration which was formed under the nominal rule of Lord Halifax, but of which Stanhope and Townshend were the guiding spirits.
		Horace Walpole died unmarried on the 2nd of March 1797, when the earldom became extinct, but the barony of Walpole of Walpole passed to his cousin, Horatio (1723-1809), who had already succeeded his father, Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton in that barony.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Walpole_Orford (1919 words)

	WALPOLE, ROBERT, 1ST EARL OF ORFORD. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The accession of George I (1714) returned the Whigs to power, and Walpole served variously as paymaster of the forces, first lord of the treasury, and chancellor of the exchequer (1715) under his brother-in-law, Viscount Townshend, and James Stanhope (later 1st Earl Stanhope).
		Walpole’s plan to reduce smuggling and make London a free port by replacing tariffs on wine and tobacco with an excise tax was defeated in 1733, largely because of widespread popular prejudice against excise.
		Walpole’s primacy was achieved and maintained through his own political talents and the circumstances of the time; he made little impact on constitutional development.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/wa/WalpoleR.html (720 words)

	Robert Walpole Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Walpole was born in Norfolk in 1676, and was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University.
		Walpole was soon able to assemble a small group of ministers who effectively ran the country, as whose chairman he came to be seen as the leader of the Parliamentary government.
		Walpole's "fall" took the form of an elevation to the House of Lords as Earl of Orford, where he continued to influence the government in the House of Commons for some time.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Walpole_Robert.html (595 words)

	Walpole - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), English novelist and letter writer, born in London.
		Walpole, Robert, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), British statesman, commonly regarded as Britain's first prime minister (1721-1742).
		Hugh Seymour Walpole was born in Auckland, New Zealand.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Walpole.html (70 words)

	kaelyn heart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert Walpole became a Privy Council and rose to the position of Paymaster of the Forces in a Cabinet nominally led by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, but actually dominated by Lord Townshend (Walpoles brother-in-law) and James tanhope, 1st Earl tanhope.
		Walpole, a polarising figure, had many opponents, the most important of which were Lord Bolingbroke (who had been his political enemy since the days of Queen Anne) and William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath (a capable Whig statesman who felt snubbed when Walpole failed to include him in the Cabinet).
		Walpoles domination over the House of Commons was highlighted by the ease with which he secured the rejection of John Barnards plan to reduce the interest on the national debt.
	kaelyn31t2.blogspot.com /2006/02/robert-walpolethe-rt-hon.html (3713 words)

	Robert Walpole
		Robert Walpole was born in Houghton in 1676.
		Walpole, a Whig, was elected to the House of Commons in 1701.
		Walpole gradually lost the support of the House of Commons, and in February 1742 he was forced to resign from office.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRwalpoleR.htm (733 words)

	Robert Walpole Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The English statesman Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), was the first minister to maintain continuing support for royal government by exercising both careful use of Crown patronage and untiring leadership in the House of Commons.
		Robert Walpole entered political life during the turbulent era of party strife that marked the reigns of William III and Anne.
		From the outset Walpole was firmly attached to the Whig party, a party pledged to continuing the war against France; when war weariness eroded its strength in 1710, he suffered accordingly.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-walpole (1312 words)

	Robert Walpole - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (26 August 1676–18 March 1745), normally known as Sir Robert Walpole, is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
		Walpole studied at Eton College from 1690 to 1695, and matriculated at King's College, Cambridge in 1696.
		Robert Walpole became a Privy Counsellor and rose to the position of Paymaster of the Forces in a Cabinet nominally led by Lord Halifax, but actually dominated by Lord Townshend (Walpole's brother-in-law) and James Stanhope.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Robert Walpole
		Walpole developed an intense hatred for Robert Harley (by then Earl of Oxford and Mortimer) and Lord Bolingbroke, the Tories who had engineered his impeachment.
		Premiership under George II Sir Robert Walpole's position was threatened in 1727, when George I died and was succeeded by George II.
		Walpole, a polarising figure, had many opponents, the most important of whom were Lord Bolingbroke (who had been his political enemy since the days of Queen Anne) and William Pulteney (a capable Whig statesman who felt snubbed when Walpole failed to include him in the Cabinet).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Robert_Walpole (3759 words)

	1ST EARL OF ROBERT WAL... - Online Information article about 1ST EARL OF ROBERT WAL... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		December 1709 for elaborating the articles of impeachment Walpole was nominated one of the managers for the House of Commons.
		Utrecht, with a view to the impeachment of Harley and St John, and to Walpole was en-trusted the place of chairman.
		Orford, and two days later he ceased to be prime minister.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ORC_PAI/ORFORD_ROBERT_WALPOLE_1ST_EARL_.html (3252 words)

	WALPOLE, Robert @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
		In 1717 Walpole left the ministry dominated by James Stanhope and Earl of Sunderland.
		During his time in office Walpole developed the cabinet system, of the 'party of the crown' through extensive use of patronage, and the Commons as the center of parliamentary power.
		He was named Earl of Oxford and continued to take part in debates in the House of Lords until his death in 1745.
	www.archontology.org /nations/uk/bpm/walpole.php (599 words)

	Knitting Circle Horace Walpole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He was the youngest son of Catherine Shorter and Sir Robert Walpole (1st Earl of Orford), the English Whig politician and the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
		In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, 'to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern'.
		"Walpole was a political figure, a literary one, an antiquary who, not content to potter, created Strawberry Hill; and, all the while, combined a solitary temperament with a relish of grand society.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /horacewalpole.html (1351 words)

	Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
		23 Dorothy, dau of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter
		Robert Battle, “English Ancestry of Anne (Derehaugh) Stratton of Salem, Massachusetts,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 155(2001):367-390 and 156(2002):39-61
		Prince William is descended from Sir Robert Walpole through Anne Horatia Waldegrave (ancestor G6 in David Williamson, “The Ancestry of Lady Diana Spencer,” The Genealogists’ Magazine, Jun 1981).
	www.guiseley94.freeserve.co.uk /PMs/walpole.htm (488 words)

	Walpole, Robert, 1st earl Of Orford - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford, 1676-1745, English statesman.
		As a Whig, he led the opposition in Parliament to the Tory administration of 1710-14 and as a consequence was falsely convicted (1712) of corruption and spent some months in the Tower of London.
		Walpole had pursued a policy of friendship with France and avoidance of war, and he had managed (against fierce opposition) to keep Great Britain neutral during the War of the Polish Succession (1733-35).
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=WalpoleR (866 words)

	thePeerage.com - Robert Walpole and others
		He was the son of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell.
		She married Sir John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, son of Sir Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton and Frances Bankes, on 24 July 1810 in St.
		She married Sir John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow, son of Sir Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow of Belton and Frances Bankes, on 22 September 1818 in Ayston, Rutland, England.
	www.thepeerage.com /p2887.htm (1341 words)

	thePeerage.com - Lady Maria Walpole and others
		She was the daughter of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford and Maria Skerret.
		Katherine Walpole was the daughter of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford and Catherine Shorter.
		She married Gospatric, Earl of Northumberland, son of Maldred, Lord of Allerdale and Ealdgyth of Northumberland.
	www.thepeerage.com /p15822.htm (1157 words)

	WALPOLE MSS.
		Among the Horatio Walpole letters are two, August 7, 1727 and June 10, 1735, to his brother, Sir Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford.
		The earls of Orford of the first creation are cataloged under the family name of Walpole.
		The earls of Orford of the second creation are cataloged under the title of nobility of Orford.
	www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/walpole.html (251 words)

	Orford, Robert Walpole, 1st earl of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		ORFORD, ROBERT WALPOLE, 1ST EARL OF [Orford, Robert Walpole, 1st earl of] see Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford.
		Author not available, ORFORD, ROBERT WALPOLE, 1ST EARL OF.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Orford, Robert Walpole, 1st earl of" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-orford-r.html (164 words)

	Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford: The Height of Power
		Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford: The Height of Power
		Soon after Walpole's return to office in 1720, he was called upon to salvage the financial wreckage resulting from the
		His control of Parliament was due partly to the dispensation of royal patronage, partly to the electoral management of Thomas Pelham-Holles, duke of
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0861853.html (385 words)

	Navy Matters \| Editorial 15 September 2005
		Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England to the Reverend Edmund Nelson and Catherine Nelson.
		(His mother was a grandniece of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford.) His mother died when Nelson was nine.
		He learned to sail on Barton Broad on the Norfolk Broads, and by the time he was twelve, he had enrolled in the Royal Navy.
	navy-matters.beedall.com /ed150905.htm (2210 words)

	Wikisource:Authors-W - Wikisource
		This is an index of authors whose last name begins with the letter 'W' (edit this list).
		Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676 – 1745)
		Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 – 1852)
	en.wikisource.org /wiki/Wikisource:Authors-W (53 words)

	Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford — Infoplease.com
		Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford — Infoplease.com
		Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford, 1676–1745, English statesman.
		(former British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole's collection of paintings; various artists, Kenwood House,......
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	Painting, Passion and Politics • Masterpieces from the Walpole Collection • Art and Archaeology • Travel ...
		Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, and Britain's first Prime Minister, assembled for his beloved estate, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, one of the 18th century's most famous art collections.
		The sale in 1778-9 to Catherine the Great of 204 works from the Houghton by Walpole's eccentric and volatile grandson, the 3rd Earl of Orford, was surrounded by great secrecy and wild rumour.
		It reflects Walpole's taste for large paintings with a rich core of works by 17th century Flemish and Italian painters such as Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Frans Snyders, Jacob Jordaens, Guido Reni, Luca Giordano, Carlo Maratti and Salvator Rosa.
	www.culturekiosque.com /travel/item639.html (325 words)

	NPG 3220; Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
		NPG 3220; Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
		Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1676-1745), Prime Minister.
		NPG D19606: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (after)
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw04757 (91 words)

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	artnet.com Magazine Features - Garrett's Attic
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		He attracted business from both the nobility and the wealthy middle class.
		Probably his most influential client was Sir Robert Walpole, called "the first British Prime Minister" (1721-42), for whom Lamerie made first the square salver, engraved with the Second Exchequer Seal of George I. A remarkable number of members of Parliament figure among Lamerie's customers.
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	The Feeding of the Child Jupiter - Provenance
		Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford [1676- 1745], Houghton Hall, Norfolk;[1] presumably by inheritance to his youngest son, Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford [d.1797], Strawberry Hill, Middlesex;[2] by inheritance as residuary legatee to Anne Seymour Damer [d.
		1835], Horace Walpole's niece and heiress; by inheritance to her grandson, John James Waldegrave, 6th Earl of Waldegrave, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex; by inheritance to George Edward Waldegrave, 7th Earl of Waldegrave [d.
		[3]Information regarding the descent from Horace Walpole to the Earl Waldegrave provided by the Getty Provenance Index.
	www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg32/gg32-41331.0-prov.html (229 words)

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