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.

The King — not Parliament — chose him ; and the King — not Walpole — chose the Cabinet.

This provoked a wave of hostility to Walpole because many saw such an act as unconstitutional — that members of Parliament were being dismissed for their freedom of speech in attacking the government, something protected by Parliamentary privilege.

* Robert Walpole enters Parliament and soon makes his name as a spokesman for Whig policy.

Walpole was impeached by the House of Commons and found guilty by the overwhelmingly Tory House of Lords ; he was then imprisoned in the Tower of London for six months and expelled from Parliament.

Under the guidance of Walpole, Parliament attempted to deal with the financial crisis brought on by the South Sea Bubble.

Walpole agreed to withdraw the bill before Parliament voted on it but he dismissed the politicians who had dared to oppose it in the first place.

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

He advised Pelham to make use of his seat in the Commons to serve as a bridge between the King and Parliament, just as Walpole had done.

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.

In Parliament he subscribed to the " Boy Patriot " party, which opposed Sir Robert Walpole.

To allow Walpole quicker access to Parliament, Kent closed the north side entrance from St. James's Park, and made the door on Downing Street the main entrance.

He thus entrusted power to a group of his ministers, the foremost of whom was Sir Robert Walpole, and by the end of his reign the position of the ministers — who had to rely on Parliament for support — was cemented.

In Parliament he soon stood out as prominent amongst the Whigs and began a partnership with Robert Walpole that would last for over forty years.

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 1737, partly as a result of political attacks by Henry Fielding against Robert Walpole, Parliament enacted a law that established " the Examiner of the Stage " to censure plays on the basis of both politics and morals ( i. e. sexual impropriety, blasphemy, and foul language ).

Walpole then turned to politics, and in 1846 he was elected to Parliament for Midhurst as a Tory, a seat he would hold until 1856.

In 1856 Walpole was elected to Parliament for Cambridge University.

Walpole never held office again, but remained a Member of Parliament for Cambridge University until 1882.

West Ealing was in the parliamentary constituency of Ealing Southall ( represented since 2007 by Labour Member of Parliament Virendra Sharma ) until boundary changes for the 2010 general election moved Walpole into the newly-formed Ealing Central and Acton constituency ( represented since 2010 by Conservative MP Angie Bray ).

He entered the British Parliament in 1734 representing the Monmouthshire constituency as a supporter of Robert Walpole, and held the seat until 1747.

The patent issue soon became a struggle between Prime Minister Robert Walpole ( with the authority of the British Parliament ) and the leaders of Ireland.

This, of all of the Drapier's arguments, is what agitated Walpole, as the head of the British Parliament, the most.

However, the essence of the letter encourages the Irish to remember the actions of Walpole, Wood, and the British Parliament.

This weakness at the throne would lead quickly to the expansion of the powers of the party leader in Parliament and the establishment in all but name of the Prime Minister office in the form of Robert Walpole.

King George I called on Robert Walpole, well known for his political and financial acumen, to handle the emergency.

Wharton's club came to an end in 1721 when George I, under the influence of Wharton's political enemies ( namely Robert Walpole ) put forward a Bill " against ' horrid impieties '" ( or immorality ), aimed at the Hellfire Club.

George II ( 1727 – 1760 ) enhanced the stability of the constitutional system, with a government run by Sir Robert Walpole during the period 1730-42.

A Whig who was first elected in 1701, Walpole served during the reigns of George I and George II.

Sir Edward Walpole ( c. 1706 – 1784 ); he had an illegitimate daughter, Maria Walpole, who later married into the British Royal Family, becoming the wife of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, King George III's brother.

In 1705, Walpole was appointed a member of the Council of the Lord High Admiral ( then Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne ), a body which oversaw naval affairs.

Foreign policy was the primary issue of contention, for Walpole and Townshend believed that George I was conducting foreign affairs with the interests of his German territories — rather than those of Great Britain — at heart.

By returning to the Cabinet, however, Walpole lost the favour of the Prince of Wales ( the future King George II ) who still harboured disdain for his father's Government.

Great Britain, free from Jacobite threats, from war, and from financial crises, grew prosperous, and Robert Walpole acquired the favour of George I.

George II offered this home to Walpole as a personal gift in 1732 but Walpole accepted it only as the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, taking up his residence there on 22 September 1735.

Walpole rejoined the government in 1720, and Caroline's husband and King George I reconciled publicly, on Walpole's advice.

George Augustus came to believe that Walpole had tricked him into the reconciliation as part of a scheme to gain power.

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.

* George Somers Leigh Clarke ( 1822 – 1882, eminent architect lived at Walpole, Manor Park and number a important local houses.

One story runs that " in 1720 Sir Robert Walpole was returning from seeing George I at Kingston and being in a hurry to get to the House of Commons rode together with his servant to Putney to take the ferry across to Fulham.

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

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.

In addition to having painted Beaverbrook, Sickert painted portraits of notables including Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Hugh Walpole, Valentine Browne, 6th Earl of Kenmare, and less formal depictions of Aubrey Beardsley, King George V, and Peggy Ashcroft.

When Carteret returned to London in 1730, Walpole was firmly established as master of the House of Commons, and as the trusted Minister of King George II.