Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (second creation)

Horatio William Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (18 April 1813 – 7 December 1894), styled Lord Walpole between 1822 and 1858, was a British peer and Conservative politician.

Background

Orford was the son of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, and Mary, daughter of William Augustus Fawkener.[1]

Political career

In 1835, at the age of 21, Orford was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for Norfolk East, a seat he held until 1837.[2] In 1858 he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the House of Lords. He referred to famed advocate of women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft as "a hyena in petticoats".[3]

Family

Lord Orford married Harriet Bettina Frances, daughter of Admiral the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew, in 1841. They had two daughters.

Lady Dorothy Elizabeth Mary Walpole (1842-1921), married Don Ernesto del Balzo, 7.Duca di Caprigliano, Duca del Balzo
Lady Maude Mary Walpole (b.9 Aug 1844), married Count Salvatore Grifeo and Grevana, Prince Palagonia

She died in November 1886. Lord Orford survived her by eight years and died in December 1894, aged 81. He was succeeded in the earldom by his nephew, Robert.[1]

Lord Orford had an illegitimate child, Horatio Walpole, by the Lady Susan, wife of the 5th Duke of Newcastle and daughter of Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton.[4]

References

thepeerage.com
"leighrayment.com". Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett (1912?). Women's Suffrage: a short history of a great movement. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack. p. 5.
"Opdebeck [née Douglas-Hamilton], Lady Susan Harriet Catherine [other married name Susan Harriet Catherine Pelham-Clinton, countess of Lincoln] (1814–1889), figure of scandal". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39436. Retrieved 27 August 2020.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Howe Windham Hon. George Keppel	Member of Parliament for Norfolk East 1835–1837 With: Edmond Wodehouse	Succeeded by Edmond Wodehouse Henry Negus Burroughes
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Horatio Walpole	Earl of Orford 1858–1895	Succeeded by Robert Horace Walpole

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[2] "leighrayment.com". Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2009.

[3] Fawcett, Millicent Garrett (1912?). Women's Suffrage: a short history of a great movement. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack. p. 5.

[4] "Opdebeck [née Douglas-Hamilton], Lady Susan Harriet Catherine [other married name Susan Harriet Catherine Pelham-Clinton, countess of Lincoln] (1814–1889), figure of scandal". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39436. Retrieved 27 August 2020.