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See also:WALPOLE OF WOLTERTON, HORATIO, 1ST See also:BARON (1678-1757) , See also:English diplomatist, was a son of See also:Robert Walpole of See also:Houghton, See also:Norfolk, and a younger See also:brother of the See also:great See also:Sir Robert Walpole. The Walpoles owned See also:land in Norfolk in the 12th See also:century and took their name from Walpole, a See also:village in the See also:county. An See also:early member of the See also:family was See also:Ralph de Walpole, See also:bishop of See also:Norwich from 1288 to 1299, and bishop of See also:Ely from 1299 until his See also:death on the 20th of See also:March 1302. Among its later members were three See also:brothers, See also:Edward (1560-1637), See also:Richard (1564-1607) and See also:Michael (1570-c. 1624), all members of the Society of Jesus. Another Jesuit in the family was See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Walpole (155$-1595), who wrote An See also:Epitaph of the See also:life and death of the most famous clerk and virtuous See also:priest See also:Edmund See also:Campion. After an adventurous and courageous career in the service of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, he was arrested on landing in See also:England, was tortured and then put to death on the 17th of See also:April 1595.1
See also:Born at Houghton on the 8th of See also:December 1678 and educated at See also:Eton and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, Horatio Walpole became a See also:fellow of King's and entered See also:parliament in 1702, remaining a member for fifty-four years. In 1715, when his brother, Sir Robert, became first See also:lord of the See also:treasury, he was made secretary to the treasury, and in 1716, having already had some experience of the See also:kind, he went on a See also:diplomatic See also:mission to The See also:Hague. He See also:left See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office with his brother in 1717, but he was soon in See also:harness again, becoming secretary to the lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland in 1720 and secretary to the treasury a second See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in 1721. In 1722 he was again at The Hague, and in 1723 he went to See also:Paris, where in the following See also:year he was appointed See also:envoy extraordinary and See also:minister plenipotentiary. He got on intimate terms with See also:Fleury and seconded his brother in his efforts to maintain friendly relations with See also:France; he represented Great See also:Britain, at the See also:congress of See also:Soissons and helped to conclude the treaty of See also:Seville (See also:November 1729). He left Paris in 1730 and in 1734 went to represent his See also:country at The Hague, where he remained until 1740, using all his See also:influence in the cause of See also:European See also:peace. After the fall of Sir Robert Walpole in 1742 Horatio defended his conduct in the See also:House of See also:Commons and also in a pamphlet, The See also:Interest of Great Britain steadily pursued. Later he wrote an See also:Apology, dealing with his own conduct from 1715 to 1739, and an See also:Answer to the latter See also:part of Lord See also:Bolingbroke's letters on the study of See also:history (printed 1763). In 1756 he was created Baron Walpole of Wolterton, this being his Norfolk seat, and he died on the 5th of See also:February 1757. His eldest son, Horatio, the 2nd baron (1723-1809), was created See also:earl of See also:Orford in 18o6, and one of his sons was See also:Major-See also:General See also:George Walpole (1758-1835), under-secretary for See also:foreign affairs in ,8o6.
See W. See also:Coxe, See also:Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole (2nd ed., 1808); the same writer, Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole (1816) ; and See also:Charles, See also:comte de Baillon, Lord Walpole a la cour de France (1867).
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