Robert Walpole
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Walpole was an English classical scholar. Life Born on 8 August 1781 in Lisbon, he was the eldest son of Robert Walpole, envoy to Portugal, by his first wife, Diana, daughter of Walter Grosset; Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, was his grandfather. He was educated at Charterhouse School. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge from 1800, having first matriculated at Merton College, Oxford in 1797, and there he graduated B.A. in 1803, M.A. in 1809, and B.D. in 1828. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1803.
