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.

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 ).

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.

Although his father had been a supporter of Walpole, Winchilsea became instead a supporter of Lord Carteret in the so-called " Patriot Opposition ".

However, it would be twenty-one years before any chose to live there ; the five who succeeded Walpole preferred their own homes.

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.

In January 1742 he succeeded Walpole as First Lord of the Treasury and titular head of the Carteret Ministry, though the government was actually dominated by Lord Carteret.

In 1867 he succeeded Spencer Walpole as Home Secretary and was forced to deal with the Fenian Rising of that year.

She was succeeded by her son, George Walpole, third Earl of Orford and sixteenth Baron Clinton ( d. 1791 ).

When Lord Orford died in 1745 he was succeeded by his aforementioned son Robert Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole.

However, he was succeeded in the Barony of Walpole according to the special remainder by his cousin Horatio Walpole, 2nd Baron Walpole.

As mentioned above, his son, the second Baron, succeeded his cousin as 4th Baron Walpole in 1797.

* Horatio Walpole, 2nd Baron Walpole of Wolterton ( 1723 – 1809 ) ( succeeded as Baron Walpole in 1797 and created Earl of Orford in 1806 )

In 1721 he succeeded Grinling Gibbons as " Master Carpenter " and in 1726 he succeeded Vanbrugh as Comptroller of the King's Works, largely to the influence of Walpole.

In 1729 he was created Viscount Chewton and Earl Waldegrave, and in 1730 he succeeded Sir Horatio Walpole as ambassador in Paris, filling this post during ten very difficult years.

* 1739 – War of Jenkins ' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.

Walpole is considered to have been the " First " Prime Minister.

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.

" In his defence, Walpole said " I unequivocally deny that I am sole or Prime Minister and that to my influence and direction all the affairs of government must be attributed.

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

* Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain

* January 9 – Robert Walpole made Earl of Orford and resigns as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, effectively ending his period as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

* March 18 – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1676 )

* April 4 – Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister of Great Britain ( although this is more a term of disparagement at this time ).

* August 26 – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1745 )

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC ( 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745 ), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

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 holds the record amongst Prime Ministers for the greatest number of siblings.

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

The grant was renewed in 1761, when the town was renamed Walpole, in honor of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, and first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

In 1733 Lord Burlington resigned his positions within the government and went into active opposition against Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister who was regarded as corrupting British politics and Whig values.