Stunning images show the eccentrically-decorated home of the son of Britain's first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole. Strawberry Hill House, in Twickenham, Richmond upon Thames, was the home of ...

A famous caricature of him, entitled “Idol-Worship ... Jonathan Swift wrote a poem called “The Character of Sir Robert Walpole”: With favour and fortune fastidiously blest He’s loud in his laugh and ...

we can without much difficulty arrive at a just estimate of the character of Walpole. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Sir Robert Walpole built the collection of works by masters including Rembrandt, Velasquez and Rubens. Yet a large part was sold off following the profligacy and inherited debts of the statesman's ...

Built by Britain’s first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, Houghton Hall lost its pre-eminent art collection in 1779, when Walpole’s profligate heirs sold 204 masterpieces to Catherine the ...

This Easter weekend will mark 300 years since Sir Robert Walpole became what is widely considered to be Britain’s first prime minister – although the role as we think of it today was yet to exist.

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It was once owned by Britain's first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, but was sold to the Russians more than 200 years ago to pay off debts and to save the family home. Now it is back at ...

Catherine, Lady Walpole, wife of Sir Robert Walpole, Viscount Walpole and Baron Houghton, has a white marble memorial in the south aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. The square plinth ...

Nick Robinson examines the record of Sir Robert Walpole, the first and longest serving British prime minister, who served from 1721 to 1742. Show more BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson explores ...