Spencer Horatio Walpole
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The Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole QC |
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| Home Secretary | |
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In office 27 February 1852 – 19 December 1852 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Derby |
| Preceded by | Sir George Grey |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount Palmerston |
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In office 26 February 1858 – 3 March 1859 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Derby |
| Preceded by | Sir George Grey |
| Succeeded by | T. H. S. Sotheron-Estcourt |
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In office 6 July 1866 – 17 May 1867 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Prime Minister | The Earl of Derby |
| Preceded by | Sir George Grey |
| Succeeded by | Gathorne Hardy |
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| Born | 11 September 1806 |
| Died | 22 May 1898 (aged 91) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party |
Whig Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Isabella Perceva (m. 1835; d. 1886) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Spencer Horatio Walpole QC (11 September 1806 – 22 May 1898) was a British Conservative Party politician who served three times as Home Secretary in the administrations of Lord Derby.
Walpole was the second son of Thomas Walpole and Lady Margaret Perceval, youngest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Egmont and sister of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval. His grandfather was Thomas Walpole, son of the diplomat the 1st Baron Walpole, younger brother of Prime Minister the 1st Earl of Orford. Walpole was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He chose law as his profession, and was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1831. He built up a successful practice and was made a Queen's Counsel in 1846.
Walpole then turned to politics, and in 1846 he was elected to Parliament for Midhurst as a Tory, a seat he would hold until 1856. He quickly gained a reputation in the House of Commons, and when the Tories came to power in early 1852 under Lord Derby, Walpole was appointed Home Secretary in the so-called "Who? Who? Ministry". He was admitted to the Privy Council at the same time. However, the government fell in December 1852.
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