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Biografia. Era il figlio del Primo ministro Robert Walpole, e della sua prima moglie, Catherine Shorter. Fu educato a Eton (1718) e al King's College, Cambridge (1725) e studiò legge al Lincoln's Inn (1723). Ha intrapreso un Grand Tour in Italia nel 1730 .
Sir Edward Walpole KB PC (Ire) (1706 – 12 January 1784) was a British politician, and a younger son of Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister from 1721 to 1742.
14 ott 2023 · Rosalba Carriera, “Ritratto di Edward Walpole” e “Henry Hyde Cornbury”. Penna e inchiostro bruno su carta bianca. In questa loro eredità ravvisiamo i puntuali e precisi ritratti dei potenti, dei nobili veneziani e degli appartenenti all’ Ancien Régime , tra i quali Rosalba fu apprezzatissima.
Sir Edward Walpole (1706-1784), da Dorothy Clement, ebbe quattro figli; Horace Walpole, IV conte di Orford (1717-1797). Dopo la morte di Catherine nel 1737 , Walpole sposò la sua amante, Maria Skerritt, che morì poco dopo di parto.
Walpole, Edward (1706–84), MP and chief secretary for Ireland (1737–41), was born in Frogmore, Berkshire, England, second son of Sir Robert Walpole, politician and landowner, and his first wife Catherine (née Shorter).
Hon. Edward Walpole (1706-1784) Born: 1706. Clerk of the Pells. Died: 12th January 1784 at Isleworth, Middlesex. Edward was the second son of the first Prime Minster of Great Britain, Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, and his first wife, Catherine daughter of John Shorter of Bybrook in Kent.
Biography. Brought into Parliament in 1730, Edward Walpole, aged 24, was appointed joint secretary of the Treasury in succession to his uncle, old Horace Walpole, whom he also succeeded at Yarmouth in 1734.
