Walpole
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Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Horatio Walpole, 1717–97, English novelist and essayist (son of Sir Robert Walpole).
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Sir Hugh Seymour, 1884–1941, English novelist, born in New Zealand.
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Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford 1676–1745, British statesman: prime minister 1715–17; 1721–42.
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a city in E Massachusetts.
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Horace, 4th Earl of Orford. 1717–97, British writer, noted for his letters and for his delight in the Gothic, as seen in his house Strawberry Hill and his novel The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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Sir Hugh ( Seymour ). 1884–1941, British novelist, born in New Zealand: best known for The Herries Chronicle (1930–33), a sequence of historical novels set in the Lake District
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Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford. 1676–1745, English Whig statesman. As first lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1721–42) he was effectively Britain's first prime minister
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Helen Brocklebank, CEO of British luxury sector body Walpole and on the ball's organising committee, said London's social calendar has "always lacked a big crescendo moment... until now".
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2025
Schlittler, a 24-year-old rookie for the New York Yankees, hails from Walpole, Mass., a town located less than 20 miles from Fenway Park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
Police said skull fragments were also found in Walpole Lane in February 2024.
From BBC ● May 22, 2024
The first prime minister of Britain, Robert Walpole, went to Eton College.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
Walpole said of the reign of George I.:—"No reign since the arts have been in any estimation produced fewer works that will deserve the attention of posterity."
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by S. R. Koehler
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