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Excerpt from The Last Journals of Horace Walpole During the Reign of George III, From 1771 1783, Vol. 1 of 2
Britain in the person of the great statesman Sir Robert Walpole. This manager of the House of Commons during the reigns of George I and George II, was Prime Minister to both these kings, and was elevated by the latter on 9 February, 1742, to the dignity of Earl of Orford, though he was better known by his previous title of Sir Robert until his death on 18 March, 1745. Sir Robert, a (5072 w'vamt and a wit, was in no sense a strict moralist. By his first wife, Catherine Shorter, the grand daughter of a Lord Mayor of London, he had, with a daughter Mary, Countess of Cholmondeley, three sons: Robert, second Earl of Oxford, Sir Edward Walpole, whose life and romance we shall deal with later on, and Horace Walpole, the antiquary and the writer not only of this work but of the admirable letters we all know so well, which give the key to so much Georgian history. By his second wife, Maria Skerrett, the Phryne of Pope, Sir Robert had one daughter, Lady Mary Churchill, born before marriage, but dowered by her father's in?uence at Court with the rank of an earl's daughter.
Robert, second Earl of Oxford, son of Sir Robert, was married unhappily to a great heiress, Margaret Rolle, Lady Clinton, and (dying in 1751) by her had but one son, George, third Earl. He, however, died unmarried in 1791, and his only surviving uncle, Horace Walpole, the author of this work, succeeded as fourth Earl, and bore the title unwillingly until he also died unmarried 2 March, 1797, when the earldom became extinct, until revived in the junior branch of the Walpole family in 1806.
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