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Horace Walpole

1717 - 1797

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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horace Walpole has received more than 1,195,392 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Horace Walpole is the 6,787th most popular politician (down from 5,900th in 2019), the 1,338th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,247th in 2019) and the 223rd most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Horace Walpole ranks 6,787 out of 19,576. Before him are Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg, Sigobert the Lame, Julius Dorpmüller, Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat, Al-Hakim I, and Hastings Banda. After him are Shō Tai, Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Charles II, Elector Palatine, Johannes R. Becher, Herod of Chalcis, and Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1717, Horace Walpole ranks 11. Before him are Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Peter III of Portugal, Johann Stamitz, Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Marie Anne de Mailly, and Louis François, Prince of Conti. After him are David Garrick, Ebrahim Afshar, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Alexander Sumarokov. Among people deceased in 1797, Horace Walpole ranks 14. Before him are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, Lazare Hoche, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Vilna Gaon, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony. After him are Pasquale Anfossi, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec, Olaudah Equiano, Wang Zhenyi, and Molla Panah Vagif.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Horace Walpole ranks 1,338 out of 8,785. Before him are Blanche of Lancaster (1345), Michael Houghton (1949), John Russell Hind (1823), Victor Turner (1920), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), and Malcolm McLaren (1946). After him are James Glaisher (1809), Paul Scholes (1974), Thomas Tew (1649), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Anne Perry (1938), and Roger Fenton (1819).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Horace Walpole ranks 223. Before him are Joan of Kent (1328), Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870), Fletcher Christian (1764), Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451), Anne Lister (1791), and Blanche of Lancaster (1345). After him are George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Jeremy Corbyn (1949), Reginald Johnston (1874), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), Penda of Mercia (606), and John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (1404).

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