Robert Walpole first Earl of Orford

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

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politics Mary Caesar
By this time his former Jacobite associates were treating him with some suspicion because they feared that financial need was causing him to curry favour with Robert Walpole 's government.
Sedgwick, Romney, editor. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1715-1754. 1970, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
This...
Textual Production Elizabeth Boyd
After the death of Queen Caroline , EB addressed a poem on this event to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole : The Vision; or, The Royal Mourners, A Poem.
Boyd, Elizabeth. The Vision; or, The Royal Mourners. 1737.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Boyd
This poem opens, with Boyd's typical energy and oddity, on a gloomy evening with fog, gales, rain, skies ablaze with meteors, and ravens (perhaps the symbolic ones from the Tower of London) behaving oddly...
Other Life Event Mary Barber
Charged with scandalising and vilifying the king and government (George II and Sir Robert Walpole ), she was out on bail on 2 February. The accusation (for which the penalty ranged from a fine...
Publishing Mary Barber
He concluded, let Mrs Howard know that I recommend you to the Queen ,
qtd. in
Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, 1999, pp. 155-74.
170
though he declined to supply a direct introduction to a potential royal patron. Two months later Gay wrote to Swift...
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 Features Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
The feelings of this Emma are all in extremes. During her early passion she quotes Frances Greville on the pains of sensibility.
Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of. Emma. T. Hookham, 1773, 3 vols.
1: 66
She and her father kneel alternately to each other when she...
Textual Production Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford
Frances, Lady Hertford , kept a fragmentary political journal coinciding with the end of Robert Walpole 's long tenure of power as Prime Minister.
Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940.
182
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...

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