Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford

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

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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...
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...
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.
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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.
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...
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.
38
She offered him shrewd...
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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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 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.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire,. Emma. T. Hookham.
1: 66
She and her father kneel alternately to each other when she...
Textual Features Sarah Green
SG 's preface puts her cards on the table as a political and social conservative. It says Reform, which seems now to be the present order of the day,
Green, Sarah. The Reformist!!! A Serio-Comic Political Novel. Minerva Press for A. K. Newman and Co.
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whether in religion, politics...
Publishing Mary Barber
He concluded, let Mrs Howard know that I recommend you to the Queen ,
Stewart, Wendy. “The Poetical Trade of Favours: Swift, Mary Barber, and the Counterfeit Letters”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, pp. 155-74.
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though he declined to supply a direct introduction to a potential royal patron. Two months later Gay wrote to Swift...
politics Mary Delany
Their object was to embarrass Sir Robert Walpole 's government, which had closed the visitors' gallery for a crucial debate over going to war with Spain. They besieged the gallery until admitted, then barracked the...
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...
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. http://www.histparl.ac.uk/about/publications/1715-1754.
Under Charles Caesar (1673-1741)
This...
politics Mary Chandler
MC was never oppositional in her politics. She supported the Hanoverian monarchy and made no mention, either laudatory or critical, of the government of Sir Robert Walpole .
Shuttleton, David. “Mary Chandler’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Description of Bath</span> (1733): the poetic topographies of an Augustan tradeswoman”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 3, pp. 447-67.
451
No doubt she needed to maintain...

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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