Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled " A Gothic Story ".

In literature, Gothic novel combines dark elements of both horror and romance: English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto is one of the first writers who explored this genre.

However, the honorary appellation is traditionally given to Sir Robert Walpole who became First Lord of the Treasury in 1721.

Walpole is considered to have been the " First " Prime Minister.

Although Walpole is now called the " first " Prime Minister, the title was not commonly used during his tenure.

Dr. Johnson is reported to have said that " Walpole was a minister given by the king to the people, but Pitt was a minister given by the people to the king ", and the remark correctly indicates Chatham's distinctive place among English statesmen.

In the new Walpole Ministry, Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet, becomes Secretary at War, and Henry Pelham is Paymaster of the Forces.

* April 4 – Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain ( although this is more a term of disparagement at this time ).

Some authors, for example Horace Walpole, have even gone as far as to claim that Warbeck actually was Richard, Duke of York, although this is not the consensus.

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC ( 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745 ), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Although the position of " Prime Minister " had no recognition in law or official use at the time, Walpole is nevertheless acknowledged as having held the office de facto because of his influence within the Cabinet.

The " longer " version of the tenure is generally upheld by the contemporary press, most notably that of the opposition, who focused far more attention upon Walpole than his counterpart.

William Arnall and others defended Walpole from the charge of evil political corruption by arguing that corruption is the universal human condition.

" is said to be an allusion to the fall of Walpole ( Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes ISBN 0-19-860088-7 ).

Walpole Street in Wolverhampton is named after Sir Robert Walpole.

There is a road passing from the town of Sharon into East Walpole which is known as Old Post Road, which continues north as Pleasant Street into Norwood.

It covers the low granite hills to the north of the town of Walpole and is covered largely by forests of karri ( Eucalyptus diversicolor ) and red tingle ( Eucalyptus jacksonii ), two of the world's largest trees.

Annual rainfall at Walpole is around.

On the state level, Seekonk is part of the Fourth Bristol state representative district, including Rehoboth and parts of Norton and Swansea, and the Bristol and Norton state senatorial district, including part of the city of Attleboro and all or parts of the towns of Dover, Foxborough, Mansfield, Medfield, Norton, Rehoboth, Sharon and Walpole.

Walpole is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States.

The town of Walpole, Massachusetts, USA was founded in 1724 and named after Sir Robert Walpole.

The Oppidan Houses are named Godolphin House, Jourdelay's, ( both built as such c. 1720 ), Hawtrey House, Durnford House, ( the first two built as such by the Provost and Fellows, 1845, when the school was increasing in numbers and needed more centralised control ), The Hopgarden, South Lawn, Waynflete, Evans ', Keate House, Warre House, Villiers House, Common Lane House, Penn House, Walpole House, Cotton Hall, Wotton House, Holland House, Mustians, Angelo's, Manor House, Farrer House, Baldwin's Bec, The Timbralls, and Westbury.

According to McGee, " I was named after my fourth cousin, Walpole J. Fimmer ... but the minister who christened me had a cold in his head.

First called Number Seven in a line of Connecticut River fort towns, Orford was incorporated in 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth and named for Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, who was England's first prime minister.

The Walpole Society, named after Horace Walpole, was formed in 1911 to promote the study of the history of British art.

William was able to remain at Charterhouse as a " poor scholar ", having been named to that position in June 1735 after being nominated by Sir Robert Walpole.

The nineteenth-century development is named after " Strawberry Hill ", the fanciful Gothic Revival villa designed by author Horace Walpole between 1749 and 1776.

The original owner had named the house " Chopped Straw Hall ", but Walpole wanted it to be called something more distinctive and after finding an old lease that described his land as " Strawberry Hill Shot ", he adopted this name.

In 1914, the novelist Henry James in an article in The Times named Cannan as one of four significant up-and-coming authors, alongside D. H. Lawrence, Compton Mackenzie and Hugh Walpole.

Fendalton was originally known at Fendall Town, named after the original settler of the land, Walpole Cheshire Fendall ( 1830 – 1913 ).

The town was named by Edward Walpole, who was granted 1, 000 acres ( 4 km² ) in the area in 1831.

He named his grant “ Strawberry Hill ”, after the London residence of his relative Horace Walpole who was the Second Earl of Orford.

The inlet in turn is named for the Walpole River, discovered in 1831 by Captain Thomas Bannister, and named by Governor Stirling for Captain W. Walpole, with whom he had served aboard HMS Warspite in 1808.

The second Lady Walpole died of a miscarriage three months after the couple's marriage.

Soon after Walpole returned to the Cabinet, Britain was swept by a wave of over-enthusiastic speculation which led to the South Sea Bubble.

In 1751, Princess Amelia became ranger of Richmond Park after the death of Robert Walpole.

Rowse was a hoarder and boasted that his unpublished diaries, journals, letters and pocket books would keep a Rowse industry going long after his death, in the manner of Boswell or Horace Walpole.

The Excise Bill in 1733 and the Septennial Bill in the following year offered opportunities for further attacks on the government, which Bolingbroke supported by a new series of papers in the Craftsman styled " A Dissertation on Parties "; but the whole movement collapsed after the new elections, which returned Walpole to power in 1735 with a large majority.

Shortly after moving in, Walpole ordered that a portion of the land outside his study be converted into a terrace and garden.

The terrace and garden were constructed in 1736 shortly after Walpole moved into Number 10.

Devonshire was a supporter of Sir Robert Walpole and, after Walpole's fall from power, of the Pelhams.

Early in 1720 a partial reconciliation took place between the parties of Stanhope and Townshend, and in June of this year the latter became Lord President of the Council, a post which he held until February 1721, when, after the death of Stanhope and the forced retirement of Sunderland, a result of the South Sea Bubble, he was again appointed secretary of state for the northern department, with Walpole as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

He is considered to have been Britain's second Prime Minister, after Sir Robert Walpole.

On 20 March 1742, after Walpole had fallen from office, Dalrymple was promoted to field marshal.

The work debuted at the Haymarket Theatre, where its coded attack on Walpole would have been clear, but its long run occurred after it moved to Covent Garden, which had a much greater capacity for staging.

Walpole attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge Walpole's father hoped that his son would follow him into the clergy, but after working between 1906 and 1909 as a lay missioner at the Mersey Mission to Seamen in Liverpool, and as a teacher, Walpole took up writing as his career.