While the " country party " attacked Walpole relentlessly, he subsidized writers who spoke up in his behalf.

Walpole reports that St Germain: ' spoke Italian and French with the greatest facility, though it was evident that neither was his language ; he understood Polish, and soon learnt to understand English and talk it a little [...] But Spanish or Portuguese seemed his natural language '.

Horace Walpole said he was of a creeping, underhand nature, and aspired to the lion's place by the manoeuvre of the mole, but afterwards he spoke in high terms of his talents.

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

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 ).

As princess and as queen, Caroline was known for her political influence, which she exercised through and for Walpole.

In April 1720, Walpole's wing of the Whig party reconciled with the governing wing, and Walpole and Caroline helped to effect a reconciliation between the King and her husband for the sake of public unity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The principal friendships of her later years were with the duchesse de Choiseul and with Horace Walpole, the latter becoming the strongest and longest-lasting of all her attachments.

Walpole refused at first to acknowledge the closeness of their intimacy from an exaggerated fear of the ridicule attaching to her age, but he paid several visits to Paris expressly for the purpose of enjoying her society, and maintained a close and most interesting correspondence with her for fifteen years.

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

The correspondence between Walpole and Madame du Deffand thus remains one-sided, but seven of Walpole's letters to her are printed for the first time in the edition ( 1903 ) of his correspondence by Mrs Paget Toynbee, who discovered a quantity of her unedited letters.

* Isabella ( 1801 – 1886 ) married her cousin Spencer Horatio Walpole in 1835 and was the only one of Perceval's daughters to have children.

The influence of the gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe, Horace Walpole, Gregory " Monk " Lewis and Charles Maturin is noticeable, and that of Walter Scott too, if only because the heroine, abandoned and left alone, resists not only by her almost supernatural talents, but mainly due to the power drawn from her temperament.

She was among the society of George I and the Prince of Wales, and counted amongst her friends Molly Skerritt, Lady Walpole, John, Lord Hervey, Mary Astell, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Alexander Pope, John Gay, and Abbé Antonio Conti.

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.

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

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.

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

Harley attempted to entice him to join the Tories, but Walpole rejected the offers, instead becoming one of the most outspoken members of the Whig Opposition.

The resignation of Sunderland and the death of Stanhope in 1721 left Walpole as the most important figure in the administration.

Walpole, a polarising figure, had many opponents, the most important of whom were in the Country Party, such as Lord Bolingbroke ( who had been his political enemy since the days of Queen Anne ) and William Pulteney ( a capable Whig statesman who felt snubbed when Walpole failed to include him in the Cabinet ).

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.

From 1762 on, Walpole had published the first history of art in Britain, based on the manuscript notebooks of George Vertue, the most important source of information concerning British art before the mid-eighteenth century.

Horace Walpole asserts that when Pulteney wished to withdraw from the peerage it was forced upon him by the king, and another chronicler of the times records that when Walpole and Pulteney met in the House of Lords, the one as Earl of Orford, the other as Earl of Bath, the remark was made by Orford: " Here we are, my lord, the two most insignificant fellows in England.

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.

He had been for some time considered the third most important man in the government behind Walpole and Townshend, and his new position confirmed this.

Walpole too was generally happy to allow Townshend to control foreign affairs, as he agreed with him on most issues.

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.

Rochford ’ s most difficult domestic duty as southern secretary was to act on behalf of George III in the painful negotiations of May 1773 with his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, who had secretly married Horace Walpole ’ s niece, Maria Waldegrave, in 1766.

For most of this period ( at first under the leadership of Sir William Wyndham ), the Tories retained party cohesion, with occasional hopes of regaining office, particularly at the accession of George II ( 1727 ) and the downfall of the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole in 1742.

When the Pantheon was opened in 1772, their choice was at once endorsed by the fashionable public: Horace Walpole pronounced it to be " the most beautiful edifice in England ".

The first and most obvious connection to William Shakespeare is presented by Horace Walpole himself, in the preface to the second edition of Otranto, in which he " praises Shakespeare as a truly original genius and the exemplar of imaginative liberty, as a part of a defense of Otranto's design ".

One of the most important landmarks in the late Georgian period was the introduction of many new species of trees and flora from around the world, which Horace Walpole described as giving the " richness and colouring so peculiar to the modern landscape ".

In 1930 Walpole began his most popular series of novels with his historical romance Rogue Herries set in Cumberland in the mid-eighteenth century.

He obtained numerous commissions, the most important being for official portraits of social leaders of the day ( including George Frideric Handel ) and political men ( e. g., Prime Ministers Robert Walpole and William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, c. 1754 ).

Construction commenced in 1784 ; when these rooms were visited in September 1785 by the usually critical Horace Walpole, he was impressed, writing that when completed, Carlton House would be " the most perfect in Europe ".