Historians Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole

Living place: England

Birthday: 24-9-1717

Global rank: #88632

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Who is Historians Horace Walpole?
Art historian of the eighteenth century, author and Whig member of the British Parliament. He is best remembered for building Strawberry Hill, a home in Twickenham, England that revived the Gothic style.
His 1764 novel, The Castle of Otranto, is considered the first Gothic novel. It began a literary genre that would become increasingly popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.

Family life info

His father, Robert Walpole, was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Historians Horace Walpole?
He was friends with Horace Mann, whom he had met in Italy.

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When was Historians Horace Walpole born?
Horace Walpole was born in 24-9-1717, death year is , at the age of 307.
Where is Historians Horace Walpole's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Horace Walpole was born in England. is a Historians, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. Horace Walpole's global rank is 88632 and whose rank is 64 in list of famous Historians.
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Events in 1717 and 24-9

Birthday Horace Walpole (24-9) in history

  • Day 24-9 year 1789: Congress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for a U.S. attorney general and the Supreme Court.
  • Day 24-9 year 1957: The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.
  • Day 24-9 year 1960: The Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.
  • Day 24-9 year 1969: The trial of the "Chicago Eight," radical antiwar and counterculture activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, began.
  • Day 24-9 year 1991: Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.
  • Day 24-9 year 1996: The United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
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