Sir Rt Hon. Earl Robert Walpole KG PC KB
(1676-1745)
Member of Parliament (1701-1702), Member of Parliament (1702-1712), Member of Parliament (1713-1742), Privy Counsellor (from 1714), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1715-1717), Leader of the House of Commons (1721-1742), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1721-1742), 1st Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1721-1742), Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath (from 1725), 545th Knight of the Order of the Garter (from 1726), 1st Earl of Orford (from 1742), 1st Baron Houghton (1742-1745), and 1st Viscount Walpole (1742-1745)
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Commemorated on 2 plaques
Sir Robert Walpole 1676-1745 Prime Minister and his son Horace Walpole 1717-1797 connoisseur and man of letters lived here
5 Arlington Street, Westminster, SW1 1RA, London, United Kingdom where they lived
In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the political opponents of Sir Robert Walpole met using the title of the Fountain Club Also the Coal Hole the meeting place of the Wolf Club of which about 1826 Edmund Kean was a leading member
Strand, London, United Kingdom where they was