Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
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The Right Honourable The Earl of Orford |
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Walpole by Joshua Reynolds 1756
National Portrait Gallery, collection London |
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| Member of the British Parliament for King's Lynn |
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In office 25 February 1757 – 16 March 1768 Serving with Sir John Turner, 3rd Baronet |
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| Preceded by | Horatio Walpole (the elder) |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Walpole |
| Member of the British Parliament for Castle Rising |
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In office 21 May 1754 – 25 February 1757 Serving with Thomas Howard |
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| Preceded by | Robert Knight |
| Succeeded by | Charles Boone |
| Member of the British Parliament for Callington |
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In office 12 June 1741 – 18 April 1754 Serving with Thomas Copleston (1741–1748) Edward Bacon (1748–1754) |
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| Preceded by | Isaac le Heup |
| Succeeded by | John Sharpe |
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Horatio Walpole 24 September 1717 London, England, Great Britain |
| Died | 2 March 1797 (aged 79) Berkeley Square, London, Great Britain |
| Resting place | St Martin Churchyard, Norfolk, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Whig |
| Parents | Robert Walpole and Catherine Shorter |
| Residence | Strawberry Hill, London |
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Eton College King's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
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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 Horace Walpole was childless, on his death 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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