| 词条 | Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole |
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Robert Horatio Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole of Walpole, JP (born 8 December 1938) is a British politician and former member of the House of Lords. AncestorsWalpole is a relative of Sir Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister. He is the 10th and 8th Baron Walpole (from two different creations). His ancestors include Sir Robert Walpole's father Robert Walpole (1650–1700). Education and local government careerHe was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. and an M.A. He served on the County Council of Norfolk for eleven years from 1970 to 1981.[1] House of Lords careerHe entered the House on the death of his father in 1989. He was a crossbencher and was internally elected to continue serving after the House of Lords Act 1999 prevented most hereditary peers from sitting.[1] He retired from Parliament on 13 June 2017.[2] FamilyHis heir is Jonathan Robert Hugh Walpole (born 16 November 1967), a writer; he has four other children including Alice Walpole, a diplomat, by his first wife Judith ({{née}} Schofield, later Judith Chaplin {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|MP}}). Their marriage was dissolved in 1979. In 1980 Walpole married Laurel Celia Ball with whom he has three further children. Wealth and estatesHis father's net estate as at his death in February 1989 was sworn as £2,065,295 ({{Inflation|GBP|2065295|1989|r=-3|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).[3] In April 2016 he sold Wolterton Hall, the house commissioned by his ancestor the 1st Baron Walpole in 1742, where he and his father had lived. References{{refbegin}}
1. ^1 {{cite web | url = http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/robert-walpole/26494 | title = Lord Walpole (incorrectly shows as Robin Walpole) | accessdate = 2012-12-27 | publisher = Parliament of the United Kingdom | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20130103023756/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/robert-walpole/26494 | archivedate = 2013-01-03 | df = }} {{s-start}}{{s-reg|gb}}{{s-bef|before=Robert Walpole{{s-ttl |title=Baron Walpole2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-walpole/1817|title=Lord Walpole|publisher=UK Parliament}} 3. ^Probate Calendars of England and Wales: 1989 at page 8454 | creation=1st creation | years=1989–present}}{{s-inc |heir=The Hon. Jonathan Walpole |heir-type=Heir apparent}} }}{{s-end}}{{Current Barons of Great Britain}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Walpole, Robert Walpole, 10th Baron}} 8 : 1938 births|Living people|Barons in the Peerage of Great Britain|People educated at Eton College|Alumni of King's College, Cambridge|Walpole family|Crossbench hereditary peers|People from Itteringham |
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