Robert Walpole

1676 - 1745  (68 years)

• Name	Robert Walpole
  Birth	26 Aug 1676	Houghton, Norfolk, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Mar 1745	London, England   [1]
  Burial	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)
  Marriage	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)
  Marriage	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, Westminster, Middlesex, England (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F11064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2018

  
  

• Notes

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

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] 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.