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4 days ago · In late 1581, St. Edmund Campion inspired St. Philip Howard to return to the faith and suffer imprisonment and death in the Tower of London in October of 1595; some of Campion’s blood splashed on St. Henry Walpole when he was martyred and Walpole left England to study for the priesthood, returning as a missionary like Campion.
2 days ago · British writer Horace Walpole famously coined the word “serendipity,” which is “an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.” So it’s appropriate that a curator at his former home, Strawberry Hill House in London, stumbled upon a lost bronze bust of Caligula that Walpole had once owned and cherished — some 200 years after it first went missing.
3 days ago · When Walpole died in 1797, ... Silvia Davoli, a curator at Strawberry Hill, found the lost bust in the family collection of Sir John Henry Schroder, who had purchased it in the 1890s, ...
2 days ago · In the reign of Henry II. the prior had a mill of the gift of Sowline, son of Nicholas de Walpole, and Sir Henry de Walpole gave the tithe of 300 sheep, in the marshes of Fridland, and Redland, in Walpole, which he and his father Joceline, held of them.
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2 days ago · An ancient bronze bust of the notorious Roman emperor Caligula was uncovered in England after disappearing over a century ago. Just five inches tall and dating back to the destruction of Herculaneum, the bust was once owned by Horace Walpole, an English writer, politician, and art collector. The newly-discovered Caligula bust will be on view at ...
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4 days ago · In the 10th of Henry VI. Henry de Walpole, his son, and Margaret his wife, were possessed of 10 marks rent issuing out of the manor of Hales-hall in Lodne; she was daughter of Sir John Harsike, Knt, of Southacre, and by the name of Henry Walpole, Esq. of Houghton, made his will on the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross in 1442; "Gives to ...
