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Spencer Horatio Walpole QC (11 September 1806 – 22 May 1898) was a British Conservative Party politician who served three times as Home Secretary in the administrations of Lord Derby.
His father Spencer Horatio Walpole (1807–1898) was three times Home Secretary under the 14th Earl of Derby. Through his mother he was a grandson of Spencer Perceval, the Tory prime minister.
Lieutenant Horatio Spencer Walpole. Unit: 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Death: 09 April 1918 Killed in Action Western Front
By her Walpole was father of two sons and two daughters. The elder son, Sir Spencer Walpole, K.C.B. (1839–1907), was at one time secretary of the post office. The younger son, Sir Horatio George Walpole, K.C.B., was assistant under-secretary of state for India from 1883 to 1907.
Sir Spencer Walpole, 1839–1907, English historian. He held a number of minor public offices and served as private secretary in the home office to his father, Sir Spencer Horatio Walpole, whose biography he wrote (1874).
After Eton and Trinity, Cambridge, Spencer Horatio Walpole (1806–1898) entered a career in the law, becoming a QC in 1846. The same year he became MP for Midhurst as a Protectionist. From 1856 he sat for Cambridge University.
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Spencer Horatio Walpole. (1806-1898), Politician; Home Secretary. Sitter in 16 portraits. Having trained in the law, Walpole was called to the Bar in 1831. He built up a successful practice and was made Queen 's Counsel in 1846, the same year in which he turned to politics and was elected MP.
