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unusual facts about Sir Robert Walpole



Robert Uvedale

After his death Uvedale's growing plants were mostly sold to Sir Robert Walpole for his collection at Houghton Hall his herbarium, in fourteen thick volumes, forms vols.

Tom Thumb

The title of "The Great" may be intended as a reference to the politician Sir Robert Walpole, himself often called "The Great." Henry Fielding's tragedy Tom Thumb was the basis for an opera constructed by Kane O'Hara.


see also

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

William Coxe, Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole (1816), and of Henry Pelham (1829)