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3 giorni fa · The house was occupied first by its creator, Edward Russell, earl of Orford, and then by Sir Robert Walpole, PaymasterGeneral, from 1714. (fn. 11) Walpole employed Sir John Vanbrugh to enlarge the house, and design stables and coachhouse and garden buildings including the surviving orangery.
3 giorni fa · A description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill, near Twickenham with an inventory of the furniture, pictures, curiosities, &c. Creator Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 Published / Created MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786] Publisher
3 giorni fa · Robert Walpole 1st Earl of Orford MP for King's Lynn: 3 April 1721 12 February 1742 Whig: Walpole–Townshend: George II (1727–1760) Walpole: Samuel Sandys MP for Worcester: 12 February 1742 12 December 1743 Whig: Carteret Henry Pelham MP for Sussex: 12 December 1743 8 March 1754 † Whig: Broad Bottom (I & II) William Lee Lord ...
3 giorni fa · A priory of Austin Friars was founded at Orford in the reign of Edward I. Robert de Hewell, in 1295, gave them a plot of ground in Orford, sixteen perches square, whereon to build. The Austin Friars of Orford obtained pardon in 1314 for having acquired, without licence, a small plot of land from John Engaye for the enlargement of ...
3 giorni fa · He was answered by Sir Robert Walpole, who represented, 'That such an Inquiry might be injurious to the Memory of some Dead, and after all, prove altogether unprofitable to the Living.' Then the previous Question being put, that the Question be now put, it passed in the Negative. May 28.
3 giorni fa · Internationally important coastal nature reserve, with a fascinating 20th-century military history. Quay Street, Orford, Suffolk, IP12 2NU. Opening times.
4 giorni fa · (Aristotle, Politics ii, 1262b36–1263a24) Aristotle thinks that holding property in common fits badly with known facts about human nature and psychology. Common property really does not work, he suggests.
