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Há 9 horas · Unlike Robert Harley, the leading Tory minister in 1710–14 (the last years of Queen Anne), the Whig administration’s leader Robert Walpole condemned the idea of a mixed ministry. When, in 1723, the Tory Lord Bolingbroke proposed one to him, Walpole “answered it was both impossible and unadvisable for me to enter into any such negotiation”.
Há 2 dias · The painting by Watteau is valued at over £6 million and was once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole. It hung in his wife’s dressing room in 10 Downing Street during Walpole’s administration. The RCEWA Committee found that the painting met the first and third Waverley criteria for its outstanding significance to ...
Eton College. Plaque marking Thomas Gray's birthplace at 39 Cornhill, London. Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, and classical scholar at Cambridge University, being a fellow first of Peterhouse then of Pembroke College. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published ...
Há 4 dias · They built elegant town houses to go with their huge country houses, often pulling down or shifting whole villages (as Sir Robert Walpole did at Houghton Hall and Philip Yorke, earl of Hardwicke, did at Wimpole) so as to produce spacious parks and noble vistas for themselves.
Há 5 dias · One of the most useful enterprises of the brilliant Horace Walpole was the private printing-press which he set up on 4 August 1757 at Strawberry Hill, his villa at Twickenham. In his letter of this date to Sir Horace Mann he says, 'I am turned printer, and have converted a little cottage into a printing office.'
Há 1 dia · From 1721, this was the Whig politician Robert Walpole, who held office for twenty-one years. Walpole chaired cabinet meetings, appointed all the other ministers, dispensed the royal patronage and packed the House of Commons with his supporters.
Há 5 dias · 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.
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