Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford

Standard Name: Orford, Robert Walpole,,, first Earl of
Used Form: Sir Robert Walpole

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Family and Intimate relationships Horace Walpole
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.
Textual Production Laetitia Pilkington
LP published a second pamphlet, the ironically-titled An Apology for the Minister.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press.
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Occupation Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
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...
Textual Production Grisell Murray
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).
Murray, Grisell. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grisell Baillie.
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She offered him shrewd...
Friends, Associates Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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...
politics Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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...
Cultural formation Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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.
politics Mary, Countess Cowper
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...
Textual Features Mary, Countess Cowper
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...
Textual Production Delarivier Manley
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Catharine Macaulay
CM 's father, John Sawbridge, was a landowner, and in politics an anti-Walpole Whig. After his wife's death he retired to a secluded life.
Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
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Dedications Eliza Haywood
EH dedicated to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough , a major critique, with her name, of Sir Robert Walpole 's Prime Ministership: the satirical fiction Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo.
Spedding, Patrick. A Bibliography of Eliza Haywood. Pickering and Chatto.
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Whicher, George Frisbie. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood. Columbia University Press.
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Haywood, Eliza. “Introduction”. Adventures of Eovaai, edited by Earla Wilputte, Broadview, pp. 7-40.
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Occupation Eliza Haywood
This was Fielding's last production. Next day Sir Robert Walpole introduced into parliament the Licensing Act , which killed this company and EH 's stage career.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
politics Eliza Haywood
EH 's political allegiance may have been dictated by the need to make a living, or by taking a satirical view of successive centres of political enthusiasm. She wrote opportunistic satire on George II while...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Haywood
The author deliberately confuses her or his identity: a fictional correspondent cites contradictory opinions as to whether it is EH , or some other daughter of Behn or Manley , or a man dissimulating his...

Timeline

11 June 1727: King George I died and George II assumed...

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11 June 1727

King George I died and George II assumed the throne.

31 December 1729: Mary Unknown, a political pamphleteer also...

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31 December 1729

Mary Unknown , a political pamphleteer also writing as Thom Tell Truth , was interrogated before Walpole and Newcastle about her authorship of a libel entitled A Letter to a Member of Parliament in the North.

15 May 1730: Sir Robert Walpole's Whig ministry was confirmed...

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15 May 1730

Sir Robert Walpole 's Whig ministry was confirmed in power following the general election.

14 March 1733: Sir Robert Walpole first proposed the immensely...

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14 March 1733

Sir Robert Walpole first proposed the immensely controversial Excise Bill.

13 June 1734: A new parliament was called for this date...

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13 June 1734

A new parliament was called for this date following elections at which the opposition's aim was to shake the security of Sir Robert Walpole 's mandate.

3-30 April 1735: Sir John Barnard's bill for regulating the...

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3-30 April 1735

Sir John Barnard 's bill for regulating the theatres and limiting the number of companies failed to pass the House of Commons , but generated much heated debate over theatre reform.

21 June 1737: The Licensing Act received royal assent:...

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21 June 1737

The Licensing Act received royal assent: the number of legitimate theatres in London was set at two, and plays were subject to censorship by the Lord Chamberlain.

2 February 1742: Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime...

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2 February 1742

Sir Robert Walpole , Britain's first Prime Minister, communicated his intention of retiring.

16 February 1742: The Earl of Wilmington, Spencer Compton (Whig),...

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16 February 1742

The Earl of Wilmington, Spencer Compton (Whig), became Prime Minister following Walpole 's resignation; he lasted only eighteen months.

By 6 April 1742: An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess...

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By 6 April 1742

An Account of the Conduct of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, a politicalapologia and attack on her enemies composed by her over almost forty years with various helpers, appeared a few weeks after Prime Minister...

28 March 1745: Sir Robert Walpole, the first minister of...

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28 March 1745

Sir Robert Walpole , the first minister of state to be called Prime Minister, died, leaving a large fortune.

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