Definition of Robert Walpole

1. Noun. Englishman and Whig statesman who (under George I) was effectively the first British prime minister (1676-1745).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Robert Walpole

Robert Peary
Robert Peel
Robert Penn Warren
Robert R. Livingston
Robert Ranke Graves
Robert Redford
Robert Robinson
Robert Schumann
Robert Scott
Robert Southey
Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr.
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Tyre Jones
Robert Van de Graaff
Robert Venturi
Robert Walpole (current term)
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
Robert William Service
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Robert the Bruce
Roberta
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Roberts
Roberts syndrome
Robertshaw tube
Robertson
Robertson pupil
Robertson screw
Robertson screwdriver
Robertsonian translocation

Literary usage of Robert Walpole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"Sir Robert Walpole was born at Houghton in Norfolk, and educated at Cambridge. He entered Parliament in 1701. In 1705 he was appointed to the Council of ..."

2. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... but they were as much opposed to Cromwell, backed by his Ironsides, as they were to Charles in the assertion of his prerogative. Sir Robert Walpole ..."

3. The Reign of Queen Anne by Justin McCarthy (1902)
"Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards to become Earl of Orford, ... Robert Walpole was the son of an English country gentleman, and was born in 1676. ..."

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