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Horace Walpole
1717 - 1797 (79 years)-
Name Horace Walpole Birth 24 Sep 1717 Picadilly, Westminster, Middlesex, England 
[1] Gender Male Death 2 Mar 1797 Berkeley Square, Westminster, Middlesex, England [1] Burial 13 Mar 1797 Houghton, Norfolk, England [1] Person ID I18112 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 21 Nov 2018
Father Robert Walpole, b. 26 Aug 1676, Houghton, Norfolk, England d. 18 Mar 1745, London, England (Age 68 years) Mother Catherine Shorter, b. Abt 1682 d. 20 Aug 1737, London, England (Age ~ 55 years) Marriage 30 Jul 1700 Knightsbridge Chapel, London, England [1, 2] Family ID F11064 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Christened Horatio Walpole, he was an antiquarian, an art historian, the author of the first Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, and of letters of great social and historical interest, which have been published in 48 volumes by Yale University Press.
MP for Callington, Cornwall, 1741-1754; for Castle Rising, Norfolk, 1754-1757; and for King's Lynn, Norfolk, 1757-1768. Earl of Orford from 1791 to his death.
- Christened Horatio Walpole, he was an antiquarian, an art historian, the author of the first Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, and of letters of great social and historical interest, which have been published in 48 volumes by Yale University Press.
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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.
- [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.