Robert Walpole

1676 - 1745  (68 years)

• Name	Robert Walpole
  Born	26 Aug 1676	Houghton, Norfolk, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Mar 1745	London, England   [1]
  Buried	25 Mar 1745	Houghton, Norfolk, England   [1]
  Person ID	I18108	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2018

  
  

  Father	Robert Walpole,   b. 18 Nov 1650, Houghton, Norfolk, England ,   d. 18 Nov 1700, Houghton, Norfolk, England  (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Mary Burwell,   b. 1655,   d. 1711  (Age 56 years)
  Married	Abt 22 Feb 1671  [1]
  Family ID	F11067	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine Shorter,   b. Abt 1682,   d. 20 Aug 1737, London, England  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Married	30 Jul 1700	Knightsbridge Chapel, London, England   [1, 2]
  Children	1. Horace Walpole,   b. 24 Sep 1717, Picadilly, Westminster, Middlesex, England ,   d. 2 Mar 1797, Berkeley Square, Wesminster, Middlesex, England  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2018
  Family ID	F11064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  1st Earl of Orford. Generally considered to have been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain in the modern sense.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2273] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site.