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After Walpole's death, Lady Louisa Stuart, in the introduction to the letters of her grandmother, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837), wrote of rumours that Horace's biological father was not Sir Robert Walpole but Carr, Lord Hervey (1691–1723), elder half-brother of the more famous John Hervey.
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, PC (13 October 1696 – 5 August 1743) was an English courtier and political writer. Heir to the Earl of Bristol, he obtained the key patronage of Walpole, and was involved in many court intrigues and literary quarrels, being apparently caricatured by Pope and Fielding.
Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, PC (8 December 1678 – 5 February 1757) was an English diplomat, politician and peer who served as the British ambassador to France from 1724 to 1730. He was the son of Robert Walpole and the younger brother of Robert Walpole , the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Lord Orford and his wife had at least two other children: Lady Mary Walpole (born c. 1757), who married Thomas Hussey, 19th Baron Galtrim, on 4 August 1777 and had issue; and The Hon. George Walpole (20 June 1758 – May 1835). [1] In 1758 he was the godfather of Admiral Horatio Nelson, who was named after him. [citation needed]
The Walpole family (/ ˈ w ɔː l ˌ p oʊ l, ˈ w ɒ l-/) is a famous English aristocratic family known for their 18th century political influence and for building notable country houses including Houghton Hall.
The Walpole ministry was led by Whig Prime Minister Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, ... The Lord Hervey. 1740 () 1742 () Secretary at War: Thomas Winnington.
The title of Baron Walpole of Walpole in the County of Norfolk was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1723 for Robert Walpole, in honour of and during the lifetime of his father Sir Robert Walpole, the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain, [2] with special remainder, failing male issue, to his brothers Edward and Horace, in default of this to the heirs male of his father, and ...
The epitaph on her tombstone was written by Horace Walpole. Lady Hervey was a lively and intelligent letter writer . Her letters to the Rev. Edmund Morris, formerly tutor to her sons, written between 1742 and 1768, were published in 1821.