Horace Walpole
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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 Parliament for Callington |
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In office 1741–1754 Serving with Thomas Copleston (1741–1748) Edward Bacon (1748–1754) |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Copleston Isaac le Heup |
| Succeeded by | Sewallis Shirley John Sharpe |
| Member of Parliament for Castle Rising |
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In office 1754–1757 Serving with Thomas Howard |
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| Preceded by | The Lord Luxborough Thomas Howard |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Howard Charles Boone |
| Member of Parliament for King's Lynn |
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In office 1757–1768 Serving with Sir John Turner, 3rd Baronet |
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| Preceded by | Sir John Turner, 3rd Baronet Horatio Walpole (the elder) |
| Succeeded by | Sir John Turner, 3rd Baronet Thomas Walpole |
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Horatio Walpole 24 September 1717 London, Great Britain |
| Died | 2 March 1797 (aged 79) Berkeley Square, London, Great Britain |
| Resting place | St Martin Churchyard, Norfolk, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Whig |
| Residence | Strawberry Hill, London |
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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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