Horace Walpole (1717-97; ODNB), son of the prime minister, Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford; Whig politician, 1741-68, writer, memoirist, arts patron and owner of Strawberry Hill, a house with spacious grounds in Twickenham that became central to the Gothic revival; 4th earl of Orford (1791), inheriting the family home, Houghton, Norfolk, but depleted of much of its collections and the estate heavily in debt.

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• 18 Jan 1920