(photo credit: KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS) Having died in 1745, Robert Walpole never saw a locomotive, steamboat, or cotton gin. However, he still helped trigger the Industrial Revolution, using what ...

Robert Walpole, and is now the family home of the Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley. One sculpture is half-buried in its entrance-hall floor. This was "the first work to go in", said The ...

Considered to be the UK’s first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole not only had the distinction of holding office the longest, but was also first to resign. After being appointed Lord of the ...

Take a political journey through nearly 300 years of high ideals and low cunning, from Gordon Brown to the first man to hold prime ministerial powers, Robert Walpole. Britain's first female prime ...

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 ...

Discover the fascinating history of Strawberry Hill House, Britain’s first and finest example of Gothic Revival architecture ...

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Having died in 1745, Robert Walpole never saw a locomotive, steamboat, or cotton gin. However, he still helped trigger the Industrial Revolution, using what some now treat as a dirty word ...