First Prime Minister of Great Britain. An early political victim of satire, the target of Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Hogarth and Thomas Gay. Walpole responded by setting up the office of the Lord Chamberlain to vet all new plays before performance. This censorship remained in place until the office was abolished in 1968. Father of Horace.
Born Norfolk. Died London.
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Sir Robert Walpole
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Fountain Tavern
In this court in the 18th century stood the Fountain Tavern where the politic...
Robert & Horace Walpole
Greater London Council Sir Robert Walpole, 1676 - 1745, Prime Minister, and ...
St Margaret's new tower - 1736
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Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset
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James Balfour
Deputy Chairman, Highways and Public Works Committee
1 memorial
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Councillor Ray Adamson, Mayor of Camden
Ray Adamson served as the Mayor of the London Borough of Camden for the year 1997-98 and from the Camden New Journal published on 13 August 2009 we learn that he was born on 10 August 1928 and died...
3 memorials
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Karl Marx
Born Trier, Germany (then Prussia). Died Maitland Park Road, Hampstead. Lived briefly in Brussels. From the Institute for Fiscal Studies: "Marx lived for a time after arriving in London in 1849 a...
Person, Philosophy, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Germany
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