Walpole in a sentence

His first marriage was to childhood sweetheart Sue Walpole in 1971 and they had daughter Sarah Walpole-Davidson, now 51, before divorcing a year later.

The current property has a surrounding ditch carrying runoff to the Sydenham basin and eventually to Lake St. Clair, passing by Tupperville, Wallaceburg, and Walpole Island and the Walpole First Nation.

Arkell, p. 154. Though George II denounced Walpole as a "rogue and rascal" over the terms of the reconciliation with his father, Caroline advised her husband to retain Walpole as the leading minister.

Black, George II, p. 80; Trench, p. 132. George asked Compton, rather than Walpole, to write his first speech as king for him, but Compton asked Walpole to draft it.

Brooke, p. 156; Simms and Riotte, p. 58 Although his accession was at first welcomed by politicians of all parties,For example, the letters of Horace Walpole written at the time of the accession defended George but Walpole's later memoirs were hostile.

He advised Pelham to make use of his seat in the Commons to serve as a bridge between the King and Parliament, just as Walpole had done.sfn citation During this time, Walpole also made two interventions in the Lords.

He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a "Great Man" (a common epithet for Walpole) ought to culminate in the antithesis of greatness: being hanged.

In 1738 he accompanied his old school-friend Walpole on his Grand Tour of Europe, possibly at Walpole's expense.

Portrait of George Montagu by John Giles Eccardt after Jean-Baptiste van Loo (c. 1713–1780) Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery A close friend and correspondent of Horace Walpole Walpole's numerous letters are similarly useful as a historical resource.

Trench pp. 218–24 Fall of Walpole Many of Pitt's attacks on the government were directed personally at Sir Robert Walpole who had now been Prime Minister for twenty years.

When Gray sent his most famous poem, "Elegy," to Walpole, Walpole sent off the poem as a manuscript and it appeared in different magazines.

Bush used a phony National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) engineered by a National Intelligence Officer, Robert Walpole, to provide the intelligence community’s “evidence” of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which, in fact, were non-existent.

Ms Walpole confirmed she gave Harry a ‘slap’ on his ‘lovely peachy bum’ – as per the details of the memoir – after they slept together.

Walpole, now 40 and a mum of two, said she had kept the memory a secret for 21 years and was surprised to read about it in Prince Harry's memoir.

After confusion, Walpole was given a second chance, and finished runner-up to Worcester Tech behind its relay team of Feener, Brady Thomas, Joseph Lewis and Issa Kourani (1:31.94).

Her funeral will take place at the Walpole Island Sports Complex on Friday, July 5, 2024 at 1pm followed by burial at Highbanks Cemetery.

Horace Walpole called the gorgeous house "the palace of palaces", and was made out of red brick with stone details.

In his teenage years, he met his one and only true love, Sandy Walpole, at Soquel High School.

It had been gifted in the mid-18th century to Horace Walpole, the writer, aesthete and Whig politician, who designed his own gothic home, Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, south-west London.

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