Horace Walpole

Also known as Sir Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Onuphrio Muralto, Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, Horatio Walpole

English writer and politician (1717–1797)

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Horace Walpole was an English writer and politician who lived from 1717 to 1797 and made important contributions to literature and public life during the 18th century. He is remembered as a significant figure of his era, though the specific nature of his literary and political achievements would require further exploration to fully understand his lasting impact.

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Born: 24 September 1717
Died: 2 March 1797
Works: 717

Top works

Supplement to The Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard III, with remarks on some answers that have been made to that work
Beiträge zu Wilhelm Hogarth's Lebensbeschreibung
Constable's edition of the Castle of Otranto and the Mysterious mother
Postscript to the royal and noble authors
Miscellaneous antiquities

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5 total works indexed

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines
· 2010 · cited 3,946x
Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease
· 2023 · cited 2,651x
Two-photon coherent states of the radiation field
· 1976 · cited 1,932x
Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci
· 2007 · cited 1,783x
Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century
· 2010 · cited 1,630x

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Quotes

“Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater.”
“It always amazes me, when I reflect on the women, who are the first to propagate scandal of one another. If they would but agree not to censure what they all agree to do, there would be no more loss of characters among them than amongst men. A woman cannot have an affair, but instantly all her sex travel about to publish it and leave her off: now, if a man cheats another of his estate at play, forges a will, or marries his ward to his own son, nobody thinks of leaving him off for such trifles!”
“Why, I'll swear I see no difference between a country gentleman and a sirloin; whenever the first laughs, or the latter is cut, there run out just the same streams of gravy! ... Oh! my dear Sir, don't you find that nine parts in ten of the world are of no use but to make you wish yourself with that tenth part? ...”
“Our supreme governors, the mob.”
“My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society—I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.”
“If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner-stone of our liberty.”

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Works in European collections

22 objects attributed to Horace Walpole, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (/ˈwɔːlpoʊl/; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.

He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. They have been published by Yale University Press in 48 volumes. In 2017, a volume of Walpole's selected letters was published.

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