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.

Walpole always denied that he was " prime minister ", and throughout the 18th century parliamentarians and legal scholars continued to deny that any such position was known to the Constitution.

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 ).

Walpole was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Born in Hartford, Vermont, Wells was educated in Walpole, New Hampshire before studying dentistry in Boston.

Born at Houghton and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, Horatio Walpole became a fellow of King's.

He was born at Docking, Norfolk, in 1558, the eldest son of Christopher Walpole, by Margery, heiress of Richard Beckham of Narford, and was educated at Norwich School, Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Gray's Inn.

At the head of affairs for the next two decades, Walpole stabilised the nation's finances, kept it at peace, made it prosperous, and secured the Hanoverian Succession.

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.

Many of Pitt's attacks on the government were directed personally at Sir Robert Walpole who had now been Prime Minister for twenty years.

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 ).

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.

Walpole entered Eton College as a scholar in 1690 and matriculated at King's College, Cambridge in 1696.

* Katherine Walpole, ( 13 May 1703 – 22 October 1722 ), who died unmarried at Bath, Somerset.

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.

The new ministry, under the leadership of the Tory Robert Harley, removed Walpole from his office of Secretary at War but allowed him to remain Treasurer of the Navy until 2 January 1711.

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.

Walpole and others who opposed the Government often congregated at Leicester House, the home of the Prince of Wales, to form political plans.

* Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford at the National Portrait Gallery, London

She persuaded the King to adopt policies at the behest of Walpole, and persuaded Walpole against taking inflammatory actions.

News of the defeat at Cartagena was a significant factor in the downfall of the British Prime Minister Robert Walpole.

* Hugh Walpole: Jeremy at Crale

* 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.

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, wrote complaining to his friend and relative Henry Seymour Conway, then Lieutenant General of the Ordnance, that all the decorative painted glass had been blown out of his windows at Strawberry Hill.