British statesman and art collector, 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745)
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He held power for over twenty years — longer than any British prime minister before or since — and in doing so invented much of what the job would become. The "Robinocracy" ran on moderation, managed crises without drama, and showed how to make Crown and Commons work as one machine.
Robert Walpole came from the gentry, a country squire first elected to Parliament in 1701. He climbed through senior posts until the South Sea Bubble crisis brought him to Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1720, where his handling of the wreckage — and perceived protection of allies — marked him. From 1721 to 1742 he served as First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the Commons, the stretch that made him the de facto first Prime Minister. His method was middle-way pragmatism: he worked for peace, lower taxes, growing exports, a little tolerance for Protestant Dissenters, and he avoided the fight…
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The most unrighteous judgment was passed upon me in the House that was ever heard of...against the most positive evidence that it was possible in any case to give. ...
It is obvious, that the people of England are at this moment animated against each other, with a spirit of hatred and rancour.
Anything but history, for history must be false.
All those men have their price.
The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.
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