Horatio William Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (18 April 1813 – 7 December 1894),[1] styled Lord Walpole between 1822 and 1858, was a British peer and Conservative politician.
Horatio William Walpole | |
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| Member of the British Parliament for Norfolk East | |
| In office 1835–1837 | |
| 4th Earl of Orford | |
| In office 1858–1894 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 April 1813 |
| Died | 7 December 1894 |
| Spouse | Harriet Bettina Frances Pellew |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge[1] |
Background
editOrford was the son of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, and Mary, daughter of William Augustus Fawkener.
Political career
editIn 1835, at the age of 21, Orford was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for Norfolk East, a seat he held until 1837.[2] In 1858 he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords. He referred to the famed advocate of women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft as "a hyena in petticoats".[3]
Family
editLord Orford married Harriet Bettina Frances, daughter of Admiral the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew, in 1841. He "treated her with grotesquely violent cruelty" and in 1846 she went to live in Florence.[4] They had two daughters.
- Lady Dorothy Elizabeth Mary Walpole (1842-1921), married Don Ernesto del Balzo, 7. Duca di Caprigliano, Duca del Balzo
- Lady Maude Mary Walpole (b.9 Aug 1844), married Count Salvatore Grifeo and Grevana, Prince Palagonia
She died in November 1886. Lord Orford survived her by eight years and died in December 1894, aged 81. He was succeeded in the earldom by his nephew, Robert.
Lord Orford had an illegitimate child, Horatio Walpole, by the Lady Susan, wife of the 5th Duke of Newcastle and daughter of Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Current History and Modern Culture: 1894. Current History Company. 1895. p. 967.
- ^ "leighrayment.com". Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Fawcett, Millicent Garrett (1912?). Women's Suffrage: a short history of a great movement. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack. p. 5.
- ^ Rintoul, MC (2014). Dictionary of Real People and Places in Fiction. Routledge. p. 926.
- ^ "Opdebeck [née Douglas-Hamilton], Lady Susan Harriet Catherine [other married name Susan Harriet Catherine Pelham-Clinton, countess of Lincoln] (1814–1889), figure of scandal". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39436. Retrieved 27 August 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)