Horace Walpole

1717 - 1797  (79 years)

• Name	Horace Walpole
  Born	24 Sep 1717	Picadilly, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	2 Mar 1797	Berkeley Square, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [1]
  Buried	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)
  Married	30 Jul 1700	Knightsbridge Chapel, London, England   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F11064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• 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.