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 ).

Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled " A Gothic Story ".

In literature, Gothic novel combines dark elements of both horror and romance: English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto is one of the first writers who explored this genre.

The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror, with publication of the Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) by Horace Walpole.

Mercantilist policies were also embraced throughout much of the Tudor and Stuart periods, with Robert Walpole being another major proponent.

Walpole chaired cabinet meetings, appointed all the other ministers, dispensed the royal patronage and packed the House of Commons with his supporters.

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.

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

Robert Walpole managed to wind it down with minimal political and economic damage, although some losers fled to exile or committed suicide.

He became such a troublesome critic of the government that Walpole moved to punish him by arranging his dismissal from the army in 1736, along with several of his friends and political allies.

Walpole and Newcastle were now giving the war in Europe, which had recently broken out, a much higher priority than the colonial conflict with Spain in the Americas.

Britannia's Glories: The Walpole Ministry and the 1739 War with Spain.

The governments of Robert Walpole and the Pelhams, Henry Pelham and his older brother the Duke of Newcastle, between them ruled between 1721 and 1756 with only one brief break and the leading elements referred to themselves as " Whigs ".

On 30 July 1700, Walpole married Catherine Shorter ( died 20 August 1737 ), with whom he later had two daughters and four sons:

Normally, Walpole and Lord Townshend were on one side, with Stanhope and Lord Sunderland on the other.

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.

This defeat led Lord Stanhope and Lord Sunderland to reconcile with their opponents ; Walpole returned to the Cabinet as Paymaster of the Forces and Townshend was appointed Lord President of the Council.

In reality, however, Walpole shared power with his brother-in-law Lord Townshend, who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department and controlled the nation's foreign affairs.

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

The crisis had significantly damaged the credibility of the King and of the Whig Party, but Walpole defended both with skilful oratory in the House of Commons.

Over the next years Walpole continued to share power with Townshend but gradually became the clearly dominant partner in government.

The two clashed over British foreign affairs, especially over policy regarding Austria, but Walpole was ultimately victorious, with his colleague retiring on 15 May 1730.

Despite such opposition, Walpole secured the support of the people and of the House of Commons with a policy of avoiding war which, in turn, allowed him to impose low taxes.

Lord Chesterfield was sceptical whether " an impartial Character of Sr Robert Walpole, will or can be transmitted to Posterity, for he governed this Kingdom so long that the various passions of Mankind mingled, and in a manner incorporated themselves, with every thing that was said or writt concerning him.