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...With its black diamond-patterned flagstone floor, fireplaces, niches, pediments and busts by Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack (including Sir Robert Walpole as a Roman in a toga), the Stone Hall would...
...The neoclassical designer Robert Adam created incredible libraries at Syon, Kenwood and Harewood, codifying the grandiose, book-lined look....
...Britain’s first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, lasted two decades; a record that has never been broken....
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...Imagine what Geidt would have made of Robert Walpole, who spent time in the Tower of London and coined the maxim “every man has his price”. Or Anthony Eden lying over Suez....
...But by that time Sir Robert Walpole, often described as the first prime minister, had built a separate palazzo for his own use behind it (in 1732-33), and linked the two....
...In the 1720s and 1730s there was a long peace between Britain under Sir Robert Walpole and France under Cardinal Fleury....
...In one of the earliest depictions of an English stage performance, “The Beggar’s Opera” (c1728), characterising prime minister Walpole as highwayman Macheath, Hogarth employs French rococo gestures, laughs...
...A promising approach for Brussels to take would be a eurozone debt redemption pact, similar to the sinking funds devised by Robert Walpole and Alexander Hamilton....
...A few miles from Sandringham in rural Norfolk and designed in the 1720s for Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first prime minister, it is another elaborate palatial house and unabashed hymn to power....
...Those calling for the ringing of church bells and for Big Ben to strike at the Brexit hour might do well to remember the words of Sir Robert Walpole when in 1739 he was forced by popular clamour and against...
...The sourcing of the show has been complex, even more so than the sourcing of the superb 2013 show which returned pictures to another Walpole home, Houghton in Norfolk, seat of Robert Walpole, Horace’s prime...
...Stowe, for instance, is steeped in political, sexual and royal messages including the Temple of Modern Virtue, built as a ruin around a decapitated bust resembling Robert Walpole....
...Robert Walpole, in office from 1721 to 1742 and conventionally reckoned to be the first prime minister, used to munch little red Norfolk apples during debates in the House of Commons, to give the appearance...
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...“We have murdered, deposed, plundered, usurped,” wrote the Whig politician Horace Walpole....
...Mrs May, sitting in Number 10 below a portrait of Robert Walpole, Britain’s first prime minister, signs a letter to Donald Tusk, president of the European Council in March 2017....
...Four years after Robert Walpole died in 1745, Horace began constructing a summer retreat by the Thames at Twickenham in west London....
...It pulses too with the vivid conviction we find in JH Plumb’s study of Walpole or Claire Tomalin’s of Pepys....
...corporations and the way global companies can find ways around the laws and the legislatures of individual nation-states, it is no accident that they sound like 18th-century commentators such as Horace Walpole...
...Horace Walpole, the youngest son of the first British prime minister Sir Robert Walpole, was an MP, an art historian and an aesthete who became the driving force behind interest in gothic art and architecture...
...They launch on Sunday at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, the glorious Palladian mansion built for Robert Walpole. “Till I got to the Spot paintings nothing felt comfortable,” Hirst recalls....
...From Britain’s first prime minister Robert Walpole to Tony Blair (who fretted in his memoir that his evening G&T and glass of wine had become a “prop”), political history can be read as a story of sippers...
...Walpole was born in 1717, the last son of the prime minister Robert Walpole. Or perhaps — his father kept mistresses on his travels, while his mother Catherine Shorter had her own lovers....
...It was Yorkshire’s equivalent to Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the magnificent seat of the Whig prime minister Robert Walpole. A Wentworth meeting was a bit like a Hollywood after-party....
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