Over the high table at King's College, Cambridge, hanging in the place of honour, is a splendid portrait of Sir Robert Walpole. There he is – short, fat, coarse-featured, jovial, resplendent in the ...

Robert Walpole was born on 26 August 1676 in Houghton, Norfolk into a wealthy landowning family. He was educated at Cambridge University and in 1701 became member of parliament for Castle Rising ...

She was often visited by British aristocrats on the Grand Tour, such as the author and collector Horace Walpole (born in 1717, died in 1797). He visited the artist and sat for this portrait in 1741.

During his many years of administration, writes H.T. Dickinson, Walpole was highly unpopular with large sections of the community. Robert Halsband describes how, in 1731, the Leader of the Opposition ...

Multiple agencies fought a two-alarm fire at 4 Pearl Street in North Walpole on Friday that completely destroyed a residence, ...

A Walpole Island man who was facing 16 charges linked to drugs and weapons Lambton OPP officers found while raiding his home ...