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Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.
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culture · British politician, writer, historian and antiquarian (1717–1797) · writer · novelist · autobiographer · politician · art collector · also Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, Onuphrio Muralto, Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, Horatio Walpole, Sir Horace Walpole
Born 24 September 1717 · Died 2 March 1797 · Q309903
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One night, in the beginning of November 1749, as I was returning from Holland House by moonlight, about ten o'clock, I was attacked by two highwaymen in Hyde Park, and the pistol of one of them going off accidentally, raised the skin under my eye, left some marks of shot in my face, and stunned me. The ball went through the top of the chariot, and if I had sat an inch nearer to the left side, must have gone through my head.
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2026· 2 entries
“One night, in the beginning of November 1749, as I was returning from Holland House by moonlight, about ten o'clock, I was attacked by two highwaymen in Hyde Park, and the pistol of one of them going off accidentally, raised the skin under my eye, left some marks of shot in my face, and stunned me. The ball went through the top of the chariot, and if I had sat an inch nearer to the left side, must have gone through my head.”
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2017· 1 entry
A volume of Walpole's selected letters was published
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2012· 1 entry
“The View From Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole and the American Revolution”
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1911· 1 entry
To promote the study of the history of British art
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1797· 4 entries
Died 1797-03-02.
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“Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.”
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“Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.”
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“On the death of his friend John Chute (1776)”
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1717· 1 entry
Born 1717-09-24.
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