Horatio Walpole

Horatio Walpole may refer to:

  • Horatio Walpole (MP) (1663–1717)
  • Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton (1678–1757)
  • Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717–1797)
  • Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (1723–1809)
  • Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (1752–1822)
  • Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (1783–1858)
  • Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (second creation) (1813–1894)

Famous quotes containing the word walpole:

    “Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)