Robert Walpole, 5th Earl of Orford

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Robert Horace Walpole, 5th Earl of Orford (10 July 1854 – 27 September 1931), was a British peer,

Foreign Office diplomat, soldier, and Royal Navy
officer.

Background

The son of Commander Hon. Frederick Walpole (1822–1876), R.N., M.P. for North Norfolk (son of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford) and his cousin Laura Sophia Frances Walpole, daughter of Francis Walpole (grandson of Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, and nephew of Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford), Orford succeeded to the earldom on the death of his uncle, on 7 December 1894.[1] He was educated at Eton.[2]

Career

Orford was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, serving on HMS Blanche on the Australian station in the early 1870s, from where he visited New Zealand, New Guinea, Fiji and other Pacific Islands. He was later commissioned a Captain, 4th Battalion,

Alfonso XII of Spain and Mercedes of Orléans on 9 January 1878, returning 6 February that year. On 10 August 1878, he was attached as private secretary to his cousin Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, H.M. Commissioner to Eastern Rumelia, and served in that same capacity on Wolff's assignment to Egypt in 1885.[1][3]

He was a

Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace.[1][2]

Personal life

Orford married firstly, 17 May 1888, Louisa (d. 1909), daughter of D. C. Corbin, of New York, United States; they had a son, Horatio Corbin Walpole, who died in 1893 aged two years, and a daughter, Dorothy (1889–1959).

CBE, TD, with whom she had two sons; she married secondly, in 1990, the dendrologist Robert James Berry (1916–2018).[1][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, 2003, vol. 3, p. 4060.
  2. ^ a b c Who's Who, vol. 58, A. & C. Black, 1906, p. 1285.
  3. ^ The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic Office Year Book, ed. Godfrey E. P. Hertslet, 1917, Harrison, p. 479.
  4. ^ "BERRY - Deaths Announcements - Telegraph Announcements".
  5. ^ "Hackfalls' Bob Berry dies at 102".
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Earl of Orford
3rd creation
1894–1931 		Extinct
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baron Walpole
of Walpole
1894–1931 		Succeeded by
Baron Walpole
of Wolterton
1894–1931
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