Sir Robert Walpole 1676-1745 Prime Minister and his son Horace Walpole 1717-1797 connoisseur and man of letters lived here
The (Royal) Society of Arts erected a plaque to Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford at this location in 1881. This was badly weathered by 1976 and the GLC took the opportunity to replace it with a standard blue roundel commemorating both the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain and his son, the writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. Horace.
by administered by English Heritage as part of the London wide plaque scheme and Greater London Council in 1976
Colour: blue
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