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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (/ ˈ w ɔː l p oʊ l /; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. [1] He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his ...
Horace Walpole by Joshua Reynolds Robert K. Merton 1965. Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. [1] The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754.. The concept is often associated with scientific and technological breakthroughs, where accidental discoveries led to new insights or inventions.
The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole.First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel.In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story.
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain [a] from 1721 to 1742.
The first stage to make, in Walpole's words, a 'little Gothic castle' began in 1749 and was complete by 1753, a second stage began in 1760, and there were other modifications such as work on the great north bedchamber in 1772, and the "Beauclerk Tower" of the third phase of alterations, completed to designs of a professional architect, James ...
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.
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Walpole was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest of three children of the Rev Somerset Walpole and his wife, Mildred Helen, née Barham (1854–1925). [1] Somerset Walpole had been an assistant to the Bishop of Truro, Edward White Benson, from 1877 until 1882, when he was offered the incumbency of St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland; [2] on Benson's advice he accepted.