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[[File:Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton by Christian Friedrich Zincke.jpg|thumb|Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole by [[Christian Friedrich Zincke]]]]

'''Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole''', ((post-nominals|country=GBR|PC)) (8 December 1678((snd))5 February 1757) was an English diplomat, politician and peer who served as the [[List of ambassadors of Great Britain to France|British ambassador to France]] from 1724 to 1730. He was the son of [[Robert Walpole (colonel)|Robert Walpole]] and the younger brother of [[Robert Walpole]], the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/walpole-horatio-1678-1757|title=WALPOLE, Horatio (1678–1757), of Wolterton, Norf. ((!)) History of Parliament Online|website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org|access-date=2018-09-10))</ref>

== Family ==
The Walpoles owned land in Norfolk in the 12th century and took their name from [[Walpole, Norfolk|Walpole]], a village in the county. An early member of the family was [[Ralph Walpole|Ralph de Walpole]], [[bishop of Norwich]] from 1288 to 1299, and [[bishop of Ely]] from 1299 until his death on 20 March 1302. Among its later members were three brothers, [[Edward Walpole (Jesuit)|Edward]] (1560–1637), Richard (1564–1607) and Michael (1570–1624), all members of the [[Society of Jesus]]. Another Jesuit in the family was [[Henry Walpole]] (1558–1595), who wrote ''An Epitaph of the life and death of the most famous clerk and virtuous priest [[Edmund Campion]]'' and was tortured and put to death on 17 April 1595.<ref name="EB1911"/>

== Political career ==
Born at Houghton and educated at [[Eton College|Eton]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]], Horatio Walpole became a fellow of King's.<ref>((acad|id=WLPL698HH|name=Walpole, Horace (Horatio)))</ref> He entered [[Parliament of Great Britain|Parliament]] in 1702, remaining a member for fifty-four years. In 1715, when his brother, Sir Robert, became first [[lord of the treasury]], he was made [[Secretary to the Treasury]], and in 1716, having already had some experience of the kind, he went on a diplomatic mission to [[The Hague]]. He left office with his brother in 1717, but he was soon in harness again, becoming secretary to the [[lord-lieutenant of Ireland]] in 1720 and Secretary to the Treasury a second time in 1721.<ref name="EB1911"/>

In 1722 he was again at [[The Hague]], and in 1723 he went to Paris, where in the following year he was appointed [[envoy extraordinary]] and [[minister plenipotentiary]]. He got on intimate terms with [[André-Hercule de Fleury|Fleury]] and seconded his brother in his efforts to maintain friendly relations with France; he represented Great Britain at the [[congress of Soissons]] and helped to conclude the [[treaty of Seville]] (November 1729). He left Paris in 1730 and in 1734 went to represent his country at The Hague, where he remained until 1740, using all his influence in the cause of European peace.<ref name="EB1911"/> He was nonetheless able to stay involved in the affairs of the capital. He served, for example, in 1739, as a founding governor for London's most fashionable charity of the time, the [[Foundling Hospital]].

[[File:Wolterton Hall 14 August 2014 (1).JPG|thumb|[[Wolterton Hall]], England]]
After the fall of Sir Robert Walpole in 1742, Horatio defended his conduct in the [[House of Commons of Great Britain]] and also in a pamphlet, "The Interest of Great Britain steadily pursued". Later he wrote an "Apology", dealing with his own conduct from 1715 to 1739, and an "Answer to the latter part of [[Lord Bolingbroke]]'s letters on the study of history" (printed 1763).<ref name="EB1911"/>

In 1724 he engaged [[Thomas Ripley (architect)|Thomas Ripley]] to design him a new house at Wolterton in Norfolk to replace one that had burnt down. The house called [[Wolterton Hall]] was completed in 1742.

In 1756 he was created [[Baron Walpole]], of Wolterton and he died 5((nbsp))February 1757<ref name="EB1911" /> at his house in [[Whitehall]].<ref>((cite news |title=Thursday's Post |work=Derby Mercury |date=11 February 1757 |access-date=23 January 2016 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000189/17570204/017/0004?browse=true| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription ))</ref>

== Personal life ==
By his wife, [[Mary Walpole, Baroness Walpole|Mary Magdalen Lombard]], whom he married on 21 July 1720, he had nine children:
*[[Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford|Horatio Walpole, 2nd Baron Walpole]] (1723–1809), created [[Earl of Orford]] in 1806<ref name="EB1911"/>
*The Hon. Mary Walpole (born 25 February 1726), who married [[Maurice Suckling]].
*The Hon. [[Thomas Walpole]] (6 October 1727 – March 1803), who married Elizabeth Vanneck (died 9 June 1760) on 14 November 1753, and had issue.
*The Hon. [[Richard Walpole]] (5 December 1728 – 18 August 1798), who married Margaret Vanneck (before 1742 – 9 May 1818) on 22 November 1758, and had issue.
*Susan Walpole (3 May 1730 – 29 April 1732)
*The Hon. Henrietta Louisa Walpole (28 November 1731 – June 1824)
*The Hon. Anne Walpole (12 July 1733 – 25 November 1797)
*Caroline Walpole (22 November 1734 – 11 January 1737)
*The Hon. [[Robert Walpole (ambassador)|Robert Walpole]] (1736–1810)

== References ==
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<ref name="EB1911">((EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Walpole of Wolterton, Horatio, 1st Baron |volume=28 |page=290)) This cites:
* [[William Coxe (historian)|W. Coxe]], ''Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole'' (2nd ed., 1808)
* the same writer, ''Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole'' (1816)
* Charles, comte de Baillon, ''Lord Walpole à la cour de France'' (1867).</ref>
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== External links ==

* [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw38930/Horatio-Walpole-1st-Baron-Walpole-of-Wolterton Horatio Walpole | National Portrait Gallery] 
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