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Walpole
[ wawl-pohl, wol- ]
noun
- Horace, 4th Earl of Or路ford [awr, -ferd], Horatio Walpole, 1717鈥97, English novelist and essayist (son of Sir Robert Walpole).
- Sir Hugh Seymour, 1884鈥1941, English novelist, born in New Zealand.
- Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Or路ford [awr, -ferd], 1676鈥1745, British statesman: prime minister 1715鈥17; 1721鈥42.
- a city in E Massachusetts.
Walpole
/ 藞飞蓴藧濒藢辫蓹蕣濒 /
noun
- WalpoleHorace, 4th Earl of Orford17171797MBritishWRITING: writer Horace, 4th Earl of Orford. 1717鈥97, British writer, noted for his letters and for his delight in the Gothic, as seen in his house Strawberry Hill and his novel The Castle of Otranto (1764)
- WalpoleSir Hugh (Seymour)18841941MBritishNew ZealandWRITING: novelist Sir Hugh ( Seymour ). 1884鈥1941, British novelist, born in New Zealand: best known for The Herries Chronicle (1930鈥33), a sequence of historical novels set in the Lake District
- WalpoleSir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford16761745MBritishPOLITICS: statesman Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford. 1676鈥1745, English Whig statesman. As first lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1721鈥42) he was effectively Britain's first prime minister
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More than 拢30,000 was raised to help build the sauna in the style of a 19th Century bathing machine, which since 2020 has been set up permanently at Walpole Bay.
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Police said skull fragments were also found in Walpole Lane in February 2024.
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An inquest at Northallerton Coroners Court heard that security guard Tony Walpole held Mr Vincent face down on the ground for 16 minutes.
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The first prime minister of Britain, Robert Walpole, went to Eton College.
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In 1975, the biologist for New Hampshire Fish and Game released 25 turkeys from the back of his truck in Walpole, a town in the western part of the state.
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