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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Horace Walpole called the Venetian Jubilee of April 1749 “the prettiest spectacle I ever saw,” though there was “nothing Venetian about it,” apart from a shallow canal and a “sort of gondola” loaded with musicians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
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
"He was interested in the development of musicals themselves in London in this period, and how musicals were used for political satire, particularly towards the Robert Walpole government," says Haddon.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
“A reasonable cost is about $6,000 a year for an individual, and if you price that out on a monthly basis, it’s $500 a month,” says Dick Power, a CFP in Walpole, Massachusetts.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
From 1771 to 1776 he acted as governor to two of the king’s sons, a “solemn phantom” as Horace Walpole calls him.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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