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1 day ago · Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been Britain’s first prime minister. This is a chronologically ordered list of the prime ministers, from the earliest to the most recent.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 days ago · Townshend’s brother-in-law, Robert Walpole, became paymaster general. Walpole, who came from a minor Norfolk gentry family, was an extremely able politician, shrewd, greedy, and undeviatingly Whig. He encouraged the new king’s partisan bias, turning it unremittingly to his advantage.
1 day ago · Fifty-seven individuals (54 men and 3 women) have served as Prime Minister of the UK, the first and longest serving of whom was Sir Robert Walpole (1721-42). The shortest serving was Liz Truss, who was premier for just seven weeks in 2022.
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3 days ago · According to Lysons Sir Robert Walpole came to the house "about the year 1722," and, considering the date on the lead cistern (1721), it is probable that he resided here quite as early as this, although other writers have made it later.
1 day ago · The house was occupied first by its creator, Edward Russell, earl of Orford, and then by Sir Robert Walpole, PaymasterGeneral, from 1714. (fn. 11) Walpole employed Sir John Vanbrugh to enlarge the house, and design stables and coachhouse and garden buildings including the surviving orangery.
2 days ago · Rt. Hon. Robert Walpole (afterwards Earl of Orford) (11th June, 1720). Rt. Hon. Charles Lord Cornwallis (19th April, 1721). Rt. Hon. Spencer Compton ( afterwards Earl of Wilmington ) (15th March, 1721–1722).
2 days ago · A so-called 'Wall of Fame' - featuring Robert Walpole, Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson and the like - waiting to see who will rise to power next. A large, open room forms the centre piece to No 10.
