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Noun: Walpole
  1. English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
    - Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford
     
  2. Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745)
    - Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford

Type of: author, historian, historiographer, national leader, statesman, statesperson, writer

Encyclopedia: Walpole, Michael