Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford

Curll had already twice attempted to cash in on DM 's success: first with The New Atalantis for the Year 1713 and then in early 1715 by advertising The German Atalantis. Written by a Lady...

The Whig party underwent various travails during MCC 's time in politics. In December 1716 and April 1717, when Lord Townshend (brother-in-law of Robert Walpole ) was dismissed first from one and then from another...

Of a journey by water from Hampton Court in Middlesex to London on a wonderfully fine October day, she writes: Nothing in the World could be pleasanter than the Passage, nor give One a better...

She writes occasionally like an Anglican , more often like a Deist or sceptic, and frequently as an anti-Catholic. In politics she was a pro-Robert Walpole Whig.

She now sought the friendship of those in political power, like James Craggs , Charlotte Clayton , and members of the royal family. But she was closest to outsiders like Lady Stafford (an almost certainly...

A British ship had, said the Genoese, violated their neutrality by firing on a small boat suspected of being a smuggler. Each side took hostages, and the affair escalated. Lady Mary mobilised her contacts and...

Few of GM 's letters survive, but in winter 1737-8 she was writing to her uncle Alexander, Earl of Marchmont (the little brother Sandy of her memoir about her mother). She offered him shrewd...

From the age of twenty he held a positon at Court and a seat in Parliament . After becoming an earl he served in the Privy Council and as British ambassador at The Hague...

LP published a second pamphlet, the ironically-titled An Apology for the Minister.

He was the youngest son of statesman Sir Robert Walpole , though rumour said he was actually fathered by Carr, Lord Hervey (a son of the Earl of Bristol), who died as a young man.