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Horace Walpole

The Right Honourable
The Earl of Orford
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Walpole by Joshua Reynolds 1756
National Portrait Gallery, collection London.
Member of Parliament
for Callington
In office
1741–1754
Serving with Thomas Copleston (1741–1748)
Edward Bacon (1748–1754)
Preceded by Thomas Copleston
Isaac le Heup
Succeeded by Sewallis Shirley
John Sharpe
Member of Parliament
for Castle Rising
In office
1754–1757
Serving with Thomas Howard
Preceded by The Lord Luxborough
Thomas Howard
Succeeded by Thomas Howard
Charles Boone
Member of Parliament
for King's Lynn
In office
1757–1768
Serving with Sir John Turner, 3rd Baronet
Preceded by Sir John Turner, 3rd Baronet
Horatio Walpole (the elder)
Succeeded by Sir John Turner, 3rd Baronet
Thomas Walpole
Personal details
Born Horatio Walpole
(1717-09-24)24 September 1717
London, Great Britain
Died 2 March 1797(1797-03-02) (aged 79)
Berkeley Square, London, Great Britain
Resting place St Martin Churchyard,
Norfolk, United Kingdom
Political party Whig
Residence Strawberry Hill, London
Alma mater Eton College
King's College, Cambridge
Occupation Author, politician
Parents Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter
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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797) — also known as Horace Walpole — was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.

He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, south-west London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764) and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest.

He was the son of the first British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole. As he was childless, his barony descended to his cousin of the same surname, who was created the new Earl of Orford.

Walpole was born in London, the youngest son of British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole and his wife Catherine. Like his father, he received early education in Bexley; he was also educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.

Walpole's first friends were probably his cousins Francis and Henry Conway, to whom Walpole became strongly attached, especially Henry. At Eton he formed with Charles Lyttelton and George Montagu the "Triumvirate", a schoolboy confederacy. More important were another group of friends dubbed the "Quadruple Alliance": Walpole, Thomas Gray, Richard West and Thomas Ashton.


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