Robert Walpole Quotes


Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?


Citations

Walpole, Robert. "Speech on a Motion for his Removal." Select British Eloquence, edited by Chauncey A. Goodrich, Harper & Brothers, 1852, pp. 30-37.

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  • Born: August 26, 1675
  • Died: March 18, 1745
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Politician, Prime Minister

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman and Whig politician who, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Leader of the House of Commons, is generally regarded as the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain.