Horace Walpole described Devonshire as possessing " an impatience to do everything, and a fear to do anything, he was always in a hurry to do nothing ".

Walpole was always the preferred name, but it was believed this was already in use in Tasmania.

Walpole himself denied it.

Walpole and his colleagues filed a UK patent covering this compound in 1962, but patent protection on this compound was repeatedly denied in the US until the 1980s.

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

During the 1938 Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he taught a field methods class with Andrew Medler, a speaker of the Ottawa dialect who was born in Saginaw, Michigan but spent most of his life on Walpole Island, Ontario.

From 1721 this was the Whig politician Robert Walpole, who held office for twenty-one years.

For all his contributions, Walpole was not a Prime Minister in the modern sense.

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

For the next 17 years until 1801 ( and again from 1804 to 1806 ), Pitt, the Tory, was Prime Minister in the same sense that Walpole, the Whig, had been earlier.

Horace Walpole was the most significant of Richard's defenders.

The first noted use of " serendipity " in the English language was by Horace Walpole ( 1717 – 1797 ).

According to Horace Walpole, the members ' " practice was rigorously pagan: Bacchus and Venus were the deities to whom they almost publicly sacrificed ; and the nymphs and the hogsheads that were laid in against the festivals of this new church, sufficiently informed the neighborhood of the complexion of those hermits.

The British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole justified Britain's non-intervention by insisting that the Anglo-Austrian Alliance agreed at the 1731 Treaty of Vienna was a purely defensive agreement, while Austria was in this instance the aggressor.

Pitt was particularly frustrated that, due to the isolationist policies of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, Britain had not entered the War of the Polish Succession which broke out in 1733 and he had not been given a chance to test himself in battle.

In February 1742, following poor election results and the disaster at Cartagena, Walpole was at last forced to succumb to the long-continued attacks of opposition, resigned and took a peerage.

Walpole was instead succeeded as Prime Minister by Lord Wilmington, though the real power in the new government was divided between Lord Carteret and the Pelham brothers ( Henry and Thomas, Duke of Newcastle ).

He was therefore unable to make any personal gain from the downfall of Walpole, to which he had personally contributed a great deal.

It was probably as much a mark of her dislike of Walpole as of her admiration of Pitt.

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.

Yet close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes ’ s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly " writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not ' Bloomsbury ': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole ".

The leader of the Whigs was Robert Walpole, who maintained control of the government in the period 1721 – 1742 ; his protégé was Henry Pelham ( 1743 – 54 ).

She had an " exquisite " poise and a famously graceful deportment ; Horace Walpole once quoted Virgil as to her gait, saying, " vera incessu patuit dea " ( she was in truth revealed to be a goddess by her step ).

* May 15 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, retires from his role in the government of Great Britain, leaving Robert Walpole as sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet ( i. e., prime minister ).

Towards the end of his reign, actual power was held by Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first de facto prime minister.

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.

She had famous subsequent disagreements with many important people, including her daughter the second Duchess of Marlborough ; the architect of Blenheim Palace, John Vanbrugh ; prime minister Robert Walpole ; King George II ; and his wife, Queen Caroline.

Eventually, the First Lord of the Treasury came to be seen as the natural head of the government, and from Robert Walpole on began to be known, unofficially, as the prime minister.

Fielding himself was responsible for the instigation of the Act, having produced a play called The Historical Register that parodied prime minister Robert Walpole, as the caricature, Quidam.

This had the prime minister Robert Walpole as its target and ends with all the characters processing off the stage ' to the music of Little Jack Horner '.

The period 1736 – 37 was the height of Walpole's power as First Lord of the Treasury ( or, as some termed him in a slightly derogatory manner, the " prime minister "), and Walpole was under incessant attack by the Tory satirists and the radical Whig theorists alike.

* Houghton Hall, Norfolk, begun 1722, for Sir Robert Walpole, the Whig prime minister.

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.

Walpole demonstrated for the first time how a chief minister – a Prime Minister – could be the actual Head of the Government under the new constitutional framework.

Despite his personal clout, however, Walpole could not stop Lord Godolphin and the Whigs from pressing for the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell, a minister who preached anti-Whig sermons.

Caroline came to be associated with Robert Walpole, an opposition politician who was a former government minister.

Over the next few years, Walpole rose to become the leading minister.

Caroline struck up a friendship with politician Sir Robert Walpole, a former minister in the Whig government who led a disgruntled faction of the party.

Though George II denounced Walpole as a " rogue and rascal " over the terms of the reconciliation with his father, Caroline advised her husband to retain Walpole as the leading minister.

Courtier Lord Hervey called Walpole " the Queen's minister " in recognition of their close relationship.

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.

Anne fought stubbornly to keep her favourite minister, but when the Duke of Somerset and the Earl of Pembroke refused to act without ' the General nor the Treasurer ', Harley resigned: Henry Boyle replaced him as Secretary of State, and his fellow Whig, Robert Walpole, replaced St John as Secretary at War.

Horace Walpole recorded the joke that " Granville and Bath were met going about the streets, calling ' Odd Man ', as the hackney chairmen do when they want a partner ", and a contemporary pamphlet satirically praised him for " the most wise and honest of all administrations, the minister having ... never transacted one rash thing ; and, what is more marvellous, left as much money in the Ty as he found in it.

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.

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

He wrote pamphlets in support of the opposition to Sir Robert Walpole, and was secretary of a committee appointed by the House of Commons to enquire into the conduct of that minister.