Walpole, Thomas - Social Networks and Archival Context (original) (raw)

Epithet: MP; of Add MS 35422

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Epithet: MP for Ashburton

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Epithet: Minister at Ratisbon

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Epithet: of Add MS 34450

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Thomas Walpole (1727-1803), second son of Horatio Walpole, 1st Lord Walpole of Wolterton (1678-1757), and brother of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford and Prime Minister. Thomas married firstly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Joshua Vanneck; and secondly Jeanne Marguerite Bataille de Montval, Comtesse de Villegagnon. His brothers were Horatio, 2nd Lord Walpole (1723-1809), Richard (1728-1798) and Robert (1736-1810). He was M.P. for Sudbury, 1754-1761; Ashburton, 1761-1768; and King's Lynn, 1768-1784. Walpole spent most of the 1780s in France, following the failure of the financial firm of William Alexander of Edinburgh in 1774, and of his own business.

From the guide to the Thomas Walpole: Correspondence, 1744-1796, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

Epithet: of Little Walsingham

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Epithet: diplomatist

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Epithet: of Add MS 38307

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