The youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain’s first prime minister, Horace Walpole was born in 1717 and became a pivotal figure in 18th-century society, literature, art and architecture. Educated ...

della Valle. Her son Horace (or Horatio), Earl of Orford, put up the memorial and wrote the following inscription: To the memory of Catherine Lady Walpole, eldest daughter of John Shorter, Esqr. of ...