* Walpole Academy Museum, the Walpole Historical Society

*" Lecture to the Sculpture Students of the Royal Academy of Art, 1885 " reprinted in the Journal of the Walpole Society, vol.

It appears thus in the Royal Academy catalogues for the years 1796 and 1797 as well as in the writings of Horace Walpole and John Thomas Smith.

Walpole was obsessed with medieval Gothic architecture, and built his own house, Strawberry Hill, in that form, sparking a fashion for Gothic revival.

Strawberry Hill House | Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the " Gothic Revival architecture | Gothic revival " style, built by Gothic writer Horace Walpole

Walpole built as his country seat Houghton Hall in Norfolk.

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.

The Market Cross here was built by George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford and presented to the town in 1783.

The first bridge across the Connecticut River, an engineering feat in its day, was built at Walpole in 1785, and is regarded as one of the most famous early spans in the United States.

In country house building, major commissions for Kent were designing the interiors of Houghton Hall ( c. 1725 – 35 ), recently built by Colen Campbell for Sir Robert Walpole, but at Holkham Hall the most complete embodiment of Palladian ideals is still to be found ; there Kent collaborated with Thomas Coke, the other " architect earl ", and had for an assistant Matthew Brettingham, whose own architecture would carry Palladian ideals into the next generation.

:" West-Combe-park, the site of this manor, was granted by Sir Gregory Page on a long lease to Captain Galfridus Walpole, ( younger brother of Sir Robert, and uncle of the present Earl of Orford ) who built the present house.

Lord Upper Ossory was also responsible for a cross commemorating Katherine of Aragon, with an inscription by Horace Walpole, and a row of thatched cottages built between 1812 and 1816 to house his estate workers.

The follies were built by William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford ( 1722 – 1791 ), a friend of Horace Walpole in the late 18th century.

The interiors, decorated by French artists, were admired by Horace Walpole and were probably comparable to the surviving state apartments at Boughton House in Northamptonshire, which were built for the same patron at the same time.

The college has continued to provide stewardship to the original Strawberry Hill Gothic Revival villa on the property, built in the eighteenth century by Horace Walpole.

The Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike was established in 1803, and built as a turnpike as a straighter alternate to two roads between Boston and Providence — the Lower Boston Post Road ( via Norwood and Foxborough ) and the road via Walpole and Wrentham.

From 1725 he designed and built Wolterton Hall in Norfolk for Sir Robert's younger brother Horatio, the 1st Lord Walpole and was chiefly responsible for converting a formal park into a naturalised landscape.

At extravagant cost he built a house at Batheaston, near Bath, and laid out a garden, of which Walpole gave a detailed description.

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

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.

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

" In his defence, Walpole said " I unequivocally deny that I am sole or Prime Minister and that to my influence and direction all the affairs of government must be attributed.

Edmond Malone and Thomas Park, the editor of Walpole, attributed the book on the grounds of Gilbert's age to William, a brother.

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.

* Walpole ( WL ) ( 51 girls, 1935 ) is named after the novelist Sir Hugh Walpole ( King's Scholar 1896 ).

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.