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Authorised form of nameWalpole; Horatio (1717 - 1797); 4th Earl of Orford
Dates1717 - 1797
NationalityBritish
Place of birth17 Arlington Street, London, England
Date of birth24 September 1717
Place of death40 Berkeley Square, London
Date of death02 March 1797
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Houghton, Norfolk
ActivityEducation:
Eton; King's College, Cambridge.
Career:
Chief Usher, Clerk of Estreats and Comptroller of the Pipe (738-1797); MP; art collector; writer
Memberships:
FSA (1753)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/02/1747
RelationshipsSon of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford; succeeded as 4th Earl (1791); also 3rd Viscount Walpole; unmarried
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA3826
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
CB/1/1/210Letter from M[ary] Berry to Charles Blagden[3 October 1796]
CB/2/297Copy of a letter from Charles Blagden to Walpole3 September 1789
CB/1/1/212Letter from Charles Blagden to Miss [Mary] Berry3 March 1787
CB/1/1/211Letter from M[ary] Berry, North Audley Street to Charles Blagden[March 1797]
L&P/2/299Letter, 'Further account of his case (calculus) and of the soap and lime-water treatment' from Horace Walpole to the Royal Society1 April 1752
L&P/2/92Paper, 'An account of his own case (calculus) drawn up by himself' from Horatio Walpole1 April 1750
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