Horace Walpole

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Milestones

24 September 1717

HW , letter-writer, novelist, gothicist, and printer, was born in Arlington Street, London.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press.
547
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press.
239

2 March 1797

HW , letter-writer, novelist, gothicist, printer, and since December 1791 fourth Earl of Orford in succession to his nephew, died at 11 Berkeley Square, London.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press.
547
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press.
245

Biography

24 September 1717

HW , letter-writer, novelist, gothicist, and printer, was born in Arlington Street, London.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature. Clarendon Press.
547
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press.
239
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.

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