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Walpole, Sir Robert, (1676-1745), 1st Earl of Orford, statesman

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Alternative name(s):
  • Orford, Earl of (Also known as)
Surname: Walpole
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Robert
Gender: Male
Date: 1676-1745
Title: 1st Earl of Orford
History: Created first Earl of Orford, Feb 1742. Prime Minister, 1730-1742. Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1715-1717 and 1721-1742. It was during Walpole's administration that the title of Prime Minister was first used.
Biography: ODNB link for Walpole, Robert (1676-1745) 1st Earl of Orford, statesman
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P275656 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P159873 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Robert Walpole
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1718-1760: Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George II
The National Archives, Kew
SP 36
2
misc financial and other papers
Houghton Hall
Cholmondeley
NRA 37395
3
corresp and papers
Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Cholmondeley (Houghton)
NRA 7114 Walpole
4
misc corresp and papers
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 35335
5
1701-09: family corresp (76 items)
University of Chicago Library: Special Collections Research Center
See NUC MS 64-176
6
1742: papers re committee to inquire into conduct
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MSS North
NRA 837 North
7
misc material
Castle Howard
NRA 24681

See HMC 42 Earl of Carlisle MSS
8
letters (18) from
Lewis Walpole Library
NRA 22338 Walpole Library
9
letters to Duke of Argyll
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD1/1158
See Annual Return 1992
10
1705, 1725-42: letters to 2nd and 3rd Dukes of Devonshire
Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth
/16
NRA 20594 Cavendish
11
1696-1706: political corresp of re Norfolk with Lady D Fielding and Thomas Howard
Norfolk Record Office
HOW
NRA 15370 Howard
12
1723: corresp with Duke of Grafton
Suffolk Archives - Bury St Edmunds Branch
HA513
NRA 2567 Fitzroy
13
1709: letters (7) to Lord Leven
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD26/9/444
NRA 29368 Leslie Melville
14
1699-1701: letters (6) to Sir John Mordaunt
Warwickshire County Record Office
CR 1368
NRA 2704 Mordaunt
15
1714-44: corresp with Duke of Newcastle etc
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 32686-793 passim
16
1742-3: letters to Henry Pelham and Sir Robert Munro
Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections
Ne
NRA 7411 Pelham
17
1703-17: corresp with Lord Stanhope
Kent History and Library Centre
U1590/O138-45
NRA 25095
18
c1727-40: corresp with 1st Earl Waldegrave
Collection held privately: enquiries to The National Archives, Archives Sector Development
NRA 28249 Waldegrave
19
1716-44: corresp with Horatio Walpole (2 vols)
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MS 63749A