Mercantilist policies were also embraced throughout much of the Tudor and Stuart periods, with Robert Walpole being another major proponent.

Walpole required that no minister other than himself have private dealings with the king, and also that when the cabinet had agreed on a policy, all ministers must defend it in public or resign.

Surrealists have also drawn on sources as seemingly diverse as Clark Ashton Smith, Montague Summers, Horace Walpole, Fantomas, The Residents, Bugs Bunny, comic strips, the obscure poet Samuel Greenberg and the hobo writer and humourist T-Bone Slim.

One of these daughters, Sophia Churchill, married Horatio Walpole, a great grandson of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell who was also descended from the 1st Baron Burghley.

His administrative skills having been noticed, Walpole was promoted by Lord Godolphin ( the Lord High Treasurer and leader of the Cabinet ) to the position of Secretary at War in 1708 ; for a short period of time in 1710 he also simultaneously held the post of Treasurer of the Navy.

Walpole was also appointed chairman of a secret committee formed to investigate the actions of the previous Tory ministry.

Walpole was also satirised and parodied extensively ; he was often compared to the criminal Jonathan Wild as, for example, John Gay did in his farcical Beggar's Opera.

Walpole was also able to persuade Parliament to pass the Licensing Act of 1737 under which London theatres were regulated.

Walpole also managed to secure the position of the Hanoverian Dynasty, and effectively countervailed Jacobitism.

Walpole also left behind a famous collection of art which he had assembled during his career.

Patrons who have influenced taste are also represented by works of art from their collections, these include: Horace Walpole ( a major influence on the Gothic Revival ), William Thomas Beckford and Thomas Hope.

The Council also operates three additional facilities — Pierre Hoge in Walpole, Camp Whipporwill in Merrimack, and the Unity Program Center in Unity.

They may also chose to attend Norfolk County Agricultural High School in Walpole or Bristol County Agricultural High School in Dighton.

The town also includes the villages of North Walpole and Drewsville.

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

Walpole also had the full confidence of Queen Caroline, whom he prejudiced against Carteret.

The salon was also visited by prominent British intellectuals, amongst them Adam Smith, David Hume, John Wilkes, Horace Walpole, Edward Gibbon, David Garrick, Laurence Sterne, and one American — Benjamin Franklin.

On her death, she left her dog Tonton to the care of Walpole, who was also entrusted with her papers.

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.

In addition to Walpole Island itself, the reserve also includes Squirrel, St. Anne, Seaway, Bassett, and Potawatomi Islands.

However, he also made a lifelong enemy at Eton of the Prime minister ’ s son, the influential writer Horace Walpole.

He inherited strong Whig principles and was a loyal supporter of the Hanoverian Protestant succession, but also admired Sir Robert Walpole ’ s peaceful foreign policy.

His reputation also suffered at the hands of Horace Walpole, who never missed a chance to belittle Rochford.

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

He became such a troublesome critic of the government that Walpole moved to punish him by arranging his dismissal from the army in 1736, along with several of his friends and political allies.

Walpole had planned to become a clergyman but abandoned the idea when, as the eldest surviving son in the family, he became the heir to his father's estate.

Robert Walpole himself quickly became one of the most important members of the Cabinet.

Robert Walpole became a Privy Councillor and rose to the position of Paymaster of the Forces in a Cabinet nominally led by Lord Halifax, but actually dominated by Lord Townshend ( Walpole's brother-in-law ) and James Stanhope.

Over the next years Walpole continued to share power with Townshend but gradually became the clearly dominant partner in government.

Spencer Horatio Walpole and thus became Walpole Park.

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

Named Secretary of State for the Southern Department on his return home, he soon became helplessly in conflict with the intrigues of Townshend and Sir Robert Walpole.

She was the grandmother of George, the Elector of Hanover, who became King of Great Britain in 1714, and the great-grandmother of George II, who presented the house to Walpole in 1732.

He became a Patriot Whig and one of the sharpest critics of the Walpole government, attacking the government's strategy in the War of the Austrian Succession.

Instead Walpole made himself extremely useful to George II, who soon became convinced of his competence and retained him in his post.

Walpole was adamantly opposed to such a policy, and became a target for unprecedented attacks.

In 1742, however, the government of Sir Robert Walpole fell, and Murray's brother-in-law, the Earl of Nottingham, became First Lord of the Admiralty in the new Cabinet.

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 became a protégé and devoted supporter of Sir Robert Walpole, the long-standing Prime Minister, achieving unequalled and unenviable proficiency in the worst political arts of his master and model.

* Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford ( 1717-1797 ), born Horatio Walpole, writer who became Earl of Orford in 1791

When Walpole became the leading minister of the day in 1721 there was speculation about his future should George I pass away and be succeeded by his son, who was more favourably inclined towards Compton than Walpole and declared that he would replace the latter with the former on accession.

He became increasingly associated with the Patriot Whigs, those most critical of Walpole, but in Parliament generally stuck to the official line of the ministry.

In 1729, he became Vice Admiral of Scotland, but lost the position on 5 May 1733, mainly because of his opposition to the Excise Bill of 1733 promoted by Prime Minister Robert Walpole.

Lord Orford never married either and on his death in 1797 the Barony of Walpole, of Houghton, Viscountcy of Walpole and Earldom of Orford became extinct.