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Horace Walpole, 'Gothick' Man of Letters

Being the younger son of a 'great man' is never an easy inheritance to carry when carving a way through life; in the case of Horace Walpole, fourth son of Sir Robert Walpole (who for 21 years dominated 18th-century English politics as 'prime minister' to George I and George II), he carried it off triumphantly by achieving renown in an exotically different area. Horace Walpole died lauded as a brilliant man of English letters and arbiter of taste to Georgian England, whose artistic activities in the last 30 years of his life struck out on a new path, foreshadowing the Victorian obsession with recreating a medieval 'Gothick' world.

Horace Walpole's fame may lie in the literary and cultural history of 18th-century England, but his fortune and early prominence drew heavily on the achievements and patronage powers of his politician father. He entered Parliament at the age of 24 as an MP and sat in the Commons for 25 years representing various boroughs in the gift of the Walpole dynasty. His father had made provision, in the bes

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Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill

Local history note on Horace Walpole.

“Some talk of Gunnersbury,
For Sion some declare;
And some say, that with Chiswick House
No villa can compare;
But all the beaux of Middlesex,
Who know the country well,
Say, that Strawberry Hill, that Strawberry
Doth bear away the bell

“Though Surry boasts its Oatlands,
And Claremont kept so grim
And though they talk of Southcote's,
'Tis but a dainty whim;
For ask the gallant Bristow,
Who does in taste excel
If Strawberry Hill, if Strawberry
Don't bear away the bell.”

The above verses, written by Lord Bath, indicate how Strawberry Hill was regarded in its day. This note gives a brief biography of Horace Walpole and a short description of how he transformed a small house in Twickenham into the magnificent house it had become by his death in 1797.

Horace Walpole, fourth son of Sir Robert Walpole (Prime Minister 1721 to 1742) by his first wife, was born at Arlington Street in London on 24 September 1717. Much of his boyhood was spent at his father’s house in Chelsea. In 1725, when he was 8 years old, Walpo

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HORACE WALPOLE

Horace Walpole (1717-1797) was an English writer and politician, who is mainly known for his short novel The Castle of Otranto (1764) which is considered the first example of the genre of the Gothic novel. Walpole was born in London as the son of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole and was educated at Eton College and King’s College in Cambridge, although he did not finish his studies. His father secured some insignificant public positions for him to provide him with an income. In 1739-1740 he performed the customary Grand Tour to France, Switzerland and Italy. After his return he was elected a member of Parliament, a seat which he held for a period of thirteen years. Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto was published anonymously in 1767, as a translation of an imaginary Italian manuscript. The second edition bore the subtitle ‘A Gothic story’, which became the indication for a type of fantastic romance with supernatural interventions, suspense, labyrinthine buildings, ladies in distress, and psychological tension. It stimulated the taste of