Horatio Walpole

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Horatio Walpole - English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)

Fourth Earl of Orford, Horace Walpole, Walpole

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(11.) Even in Walpole's estimation, Kent's talent as a painter was "below mediocrity" (The Works of Horatio Walpole [London, 1798], III.

THE CONTESTED INSPIRATION OF KENT'S LANDSCAPING INNOVATION: NATIVE INGENUITY, RENAISSANCE ITALY, ANCIENT ROME, OR CHINA

It follows the retirement of Lord Robert Horatio Walpole. When a peer dies or retires, those who lost Lords seats in the 1999 abolition of inherited peerages get the first chance to go for the vacancy.

Peers vie for Lords seat in 'farcical' vote

Two key frames for the play, the prologue and epilogue, though almost both surely written in 1768, were not printed until 1798 in The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford.