Walpole,Sir Robert

Walpole,Sir Robert
Walpole, Sir Robert. First Earl of Orford. 1676-1745.
English politician who as first lord of the treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1715-1717 and 1721-1742) led the Whig administration and is regarded as Britain's first prime minister.

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  • Walpole, Sir Spencer — (1839 1907)    Historian, s. of the Right Hon. Spencer W., Home Sec. in the three Derby Cabinets, belonged to the same family as Sir Robert W. Ed. at Eton he became a clerk in the War Office, and was thereafter successively Inspector of Fisheries …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

  • Sir Robert Walpole — noun Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676 1745) • Syn: ↑Walpole, ↑Robert Walpole, ↑First Earl of Orford • Instance Hypernyms: ↑statesman, ↑solon, ↑national leader …   Useful english dictionary

  • Walpole — Walpole, Sir Robert, später Graf Oxford, geb. 1676 zu Hougthon, Sohn eines Edelmanns, kam 1700 in das Parlament, wurde whigistischer Parteiführer, 1714 Minister und blieb es bis 1742, war sehr thätig für die protest. Thronfolge u. regierte nach… …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • Walpole — noun 1. Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676 1745) • Syn: ↑Robert Walpole, ↑Sir Robert Walpole, ↑First Earl of Orford • Instance Hypernyms: ↑statesman, ↑solon, ↑national leader …   Useful english dictionary

  • Robert Walpole — noun Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676 1745) • Syn: ↑Walpole, ↑Sir Robert Walpole, ↑First Earl of Orford • Instance Hypernyms: ↑statesman, ↑solon, ↑national leader * …   Useful english dictionary

  • Robert Walpole — Robert Walpole, 1. Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (* 26. August 1676 in Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England; † 18. März 1745 in London) war ab 1721 faktisch, ab 1730 auch formell erster Premierminister …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Robert Walpole (1650–1700) — Robert Walpole MP Robert Walpole s home, Houghton Hall Member of Parliament for Castle Rising …   Wikipedia

  • Robert Peake the Elder — (c. 1551 – 1619) was an English painter active in the later part of Elizabeth I s reign and for most of the reign of James I. In 1604, he was appointed picture maker to the heir to the throne, Prince Henry, and in 1607, serjeant painter to King… …   Wikipedia

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