Directory of Walpole, Robert Resources

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Sir Robert Walpole, British Prime Minister 1721-42, Whig. Born: 26 August 1676 in Houghton, Norfolk. Died: 18 March 1745 in Arlington Street, London.

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• A. J. Viseltear: The last illnesses of Robert and Horace Walpole

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2589702/
  Published in Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1983 Mar–Apr; 56(2): 131–152. Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version and a downloadable/printable PDF file.

• David Hume: A Character of Sir Robert Walpole

  http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=704&chapter=137573&layout=html&Itemid=27
  Essay VIII in the 'Essays Withdrawn and Unpublished' part of 'Essays Moral, Political, Literary'.

• E. A. Spriggs: The illnesses and death of Robert Walpole

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1139221/
  Published in Medical History: 1982 October; 26(4: 421–428. Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version and a downloadable/printable PDF file.

• InfoBritain: Robert Walpole Biography And Visits

  http://www.infobritain.co.uk/Robert_Walpole.htm
  Biographical article with pictures of the places significant in his life.

• Norris Arthur Brisco: The economic policy of Robert Walpole

  http://www.archive.org/details/economicpolicyof00brisrich
  The scanned pages are available in PDF, DjVu and text format as well. From the Internet Archive.

• On His Proposed Removal from Office

  http://www.bartleby.com/268/3/17.html
  Speech by Robert Walpole in: William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations at www.bartleby.com.

• Pall Mall, South Side, Past Buildings - No 71 Pall Mall: Sir Edward Walpole's House

  http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols29-30/pt1/pp378-379
  History of Walpole's house with footnotes and references.

 

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