Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole

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Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, PC (8 December 1678 – 5 February 1757) was an English diplomat, politician and peer who served as the British ambassador to France from 1724 to 1730. He was the son of Robert Walpole and the younger brother of Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.[1]

Family

The Walpoles owned land in Norfolk in the 12th century and took their name from

Society of Jesus. Another Jesuit in the family was Henry Walpole (1558–1595), who wrote An Epitaph of the life and death of the most famous clerk and virtuous priest Edmund Campion and was tortured and put to death on 17 April 1595.[2]

Political career

Born at Houghton and educated at

lord-lieutenant of Ireland in 1720 and Secretary to the Treasury a second time in 1721.[2]

In 1722 he was again at

minister plenipotentiary. He got on intimate terms with Fleury and seconded his brother in his efforts to maintain friendly relations with France; he represented Great Britain at the congress of Soissons and helped to conclude the treaty of Seville (November 1729). He left Paris in 1730 and in 1734 went to represent his country at The Hague, where he remained until 1740, using all his influence in the cause of European peace.[2] He was nonetheless able to stay involved in the affairs of the capital. He served, for example, in 1739, as a founding governor for London's most fashionable charity of the time, the Foundling Hospital
.

Wolterton Hall, England

After the fall of Sir Robert Walpole in 1742, Horatio defended his conduct in the

Lord Bolingbroke's letters on the study of history" (printed 1763).[2]

In 1724 he engaged Thomas Ripley to design him a new house at Wolterton in Norfolk to replace one that had burnt down. The house called Wolterton Hall was completed in 1742.

In 1756 he was created Baron Walpole, of Wolterton and he died 5 February 1757[2] at his house in Whitehall.[4]

Personal life

He married Mary Magdalen Lombard on 21 July 1720. They had nine children:

  • Horatio Walpole, 2nd Baron Walpole (1723–1809), created Earl of Orford in 1806[2]
  • The Hon. Mary Walpole (born 25 February 1726), who married Maurice Suckling.
  • The Hon. Thomas Walpole (6 October 1727 – March 1803), who married Elizabeth Vanneck (died 9 June 1760) on 14 November 1753, and had issue.
  • The Hon. Richard Walpole (5 December 1728 – 18 August 1798), who married Margaret Vanneck (before 1742 – 9 May 1818) on 22 November 1758, and had issue.
  • Susan Walpole (3 May 1730 – 29 April 1732)
  • The Hon. Henrietta Louisa Walpole (28 November 1731 – June 1824)
  • The Hon. Anne Walpole (12 July 1733 – 25 November 1797)
  • Caroline Walpole (22 November 1734 – 11 January 1737)
  • The Hon.
    Robert Walpole
    (1736–1810)

References

  1. ^ "WALPOLE, Horatio (1678–1757), of Wolterton, Norf. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Walpole of Wolterton, Horatio, 1st Baron". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 290. This cites:
    • W. Coxe, Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole (2nd ed., 1808)
    • the same writer, Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole (1816)
    • Charles, comte de Baillon, Lord Walpole à la cour de France (1867).
  3. ^ "Walpole, Horace (Horatio) (WLPL698HH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ "Thursday's Post". Derby Mercury. 11 February 1757. Retrieved 23 January 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
British Ambassador to France

1724–1730 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Ambassador to the United Provinces

1734–1739 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Secretary to the Treasury
(junior)
1715–1717 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chief Secretary for Ireland
1720–1721 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Secretary to the Treasury
(junior)
1721–1730 		Succeeded by
Vacant
Title last held by
The Earl of Lincoln 		Cofferer of the Household
1730–1741 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Teller of the Exchequer

1741–1757 		Succeeded by
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel
1710
With: Francis Robartes 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
William Feilding
Horatio Walpole, senior
 Member of Parliament for
William Feilding
 		Succeeded by
Charles Churchill
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Bere Alston
1715–1717
With: Lawrence Carter 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for East Looe
1718–1722
With: John Smith 		Succeeded by
William Lowndes
John Smith
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth
1722–1734
With: Hon. Charles Townshend 1722–1723
William Townshend 1723–1734 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Norwich
1734–1756
With: Waller Bacon 1734–1735
Thomas Vere 1735–1747
Lord Hobart 1747–1756 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation Baron Walpole
of Wolterton
1756–1757 		Succeeded by
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