How did robert walpole die
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WALPOLE, Horatio, Lord Walpole (1783-1858), of Wolterton, Norf.
Family and Education
b. 14 June 1783, 1st s. of Hon. Horatio Walpole* by 1st w. Sophia, da. and coh. of Col. Charles Churchill†. educ. Eton 1797-1801; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1801. m. 23 July 1812, Mary, da. and coh. of William Augustus Fawkener, clerk of the Privy Council, of Brocton Hall, Salop, 3s. 2da. suc. fa. as 3rd Earl of Orford 15 June 1822.
Offices Held
Attaché at St. Petersburg 1806, at Madrid 1808; ld. of Admiralty June 1811-Oct. 1812; sec. of embassy and minister ad int. St. Petersburg 1812-15; commr. Board of Control June 1818-Feb. 1822.
Constable, Castle Rising 1822-d.; col. W. Norf. militia 1822-d.
Biography
Walpole, described by Lady Harriet Leveson Gower as ‘no bigger than my thumb’ after a serious illness in 1810, was launched by his father in the diplomatic line. His father’s brother George Walpole was under-secretary to Fox at the Foreign Office in 1806 and it was to Fox that Lord Orford applied, securing a promise of employment for his son. It was implemented on Thomas Grenvill
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Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole
British politician (1938–2021)
Robert Horatio Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole of Walpole, 8th Baron Walpole of Wolterton, JP (8 December 1938 – 8 May 2021), was a British politician who, as an excepted hereditary peer, was a member of the House of Lords until his retirement in 2017.
Ancestors
Walpole was descended from Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole (of Wolterton), a younger brother of Sir Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister. He was the 10th and 8th Baron Walpole (of two different creations). His ancestors include Sir Robert Walpole's father Colonel Robert Walpole (1650–1700).
Education and local government career
He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he received a BA and an MA. He served on Norfolk County Council for eleven years from 1970 to 1981.[1]
House of Lords career
He entered the House on the death of his father in 1989. He was a crossbencher and was internally elected to continue serving after the House of Lords Act 1999 prevented most hereditary peers f
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Sir Robert Walpole
On 26th August 1676 Sir Robert Walpole was born, a man who would become not only Britain’s first Prime Minister, but also the longest serving Prime Minister in British history.
Walpole was born in Houghton, Norfolk, the son of Robert Walpole senior, a Whig politician who served in the House of Commons, and his wife, Mary Walpole, a member of the gentry, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Burwell of Rougham. He came from a high ranking, important family with political links that would prove vital for his future career.
The young Robert Walpole attended a private school in Norfolk and in 1690 entered the esteemed Eton College where he gained an excellent academic reputation. With his impressive scholarly credentials, he made the natural progression to King’s College Cambridge, with the intention of becoming a clergyman.
Walpole however was forced to reconsider his plans when on 25th May 1698, after hearing news that his last remaining elder brother Edward had passed away, he left the college to help his father manage the family estate. Only two years later his f
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