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Robert Walpole   /rˈɑbərt wˈɔlpˌoʊl/   Listen
Robert Walpole

noun
1.
Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745).  Synonyms: First Earl of Orford, Sir Robert Walpole, Walpole.





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... eldest son, Frederick, Prince of Wales, and his lively and clever wife, Queen Caroline, many years before his death. His chief ministers were, first, Sir Robert Walpole, and afterwards the Earl of Chatham—able men, who knew how to manage the country through all these wars. The king died at last, quite suddenly when sixty-eight years old, in the ...
— Young Folks' History of England • Charlotte M. Yonge


Words linked to "Robert Walpole" :   statesman, solon, national leader


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