1901 CARLTON CLUB letter Robert Horace Walpole, 5th Earl of Orford

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1901 CARLTON CLUB letter Robert Horace Walpole, 5th Earl of Orford
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Robert Horace Walpole, 5th Earl of Orford (10 July 1854 – 27 September 1931) was a British peer, Foreign Office diplomat, soldier, and Royal Navy officer.
The son of Commander Hon. Frederick Walpole (1822–1876), R.N., M.P. for North Norfolk (son of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford) and his cousin Laura Sophia Frances, daughter of Francis Walpole (grandson of Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole and nephew of Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford), Orford succeeded to the earldom on the death of his uncle, on 7 December 1894.[1] He was educated at Eton.[
Career
Orford was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, later commissioned a Captain, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. He was part of the Earl of Rosslyn's Special Embassy to the wedding of King Alfonso XII of Spain and Mercedes of Orléans on 9 January, 1878, returning 6 February that year. On 10 August 1878, he was attached as private secretary to his cousin Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, H.M. Commissioner to Eastern Rumelia, and served in that same capacity on Wolff's assignment to Egypt in 1885.
He was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace.
Personal life
Orford married firstly, 17 May 1888, Louisa (d. 1909), daughter of D. C. Corbin, of New York, U.S.A.; they had a son, Horatio Corbin Walpole, who died in 1893 aged two years, and a daughter, Dorothy (1889–1959).[7] He married secondly, 15 September 1917, Emily Gladys (1891–1988), daughter of Rev. Thomas Henry Royal Oakes, rector of Thurgarton, Norfolk. Their elder daughter, Gladys, died in 1919 aged less than a year; the second daughter, Anne (1919-2019)[8] was a horticulturist, and married firstly, in 1939, Colonel Joseph Eric Palmer (1903–1980), CBE, TD, with whom she had two sons; she married secondly, in 1990, the dendrologist Robert James Berry (1916–2018)
At his death, the earldom was extinct.
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Robert Horace Walpole, 5th Earl of Orford (10 July 1854 – 27 September 1931) was a British peer, Foreign Office diplomat, soldier, and Royal Navy officer.The son of Commander Hon. Frederick Walpole (1822–1876), R.N., M.P. for North Norfolk (son of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford) and his cousin Laura Sophia Frances, daughter of Francis Walpole (grandson of Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole and nephew of Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford), Orford succeeded to the earldom on the death of his uncle, on 7 December 1894.[1] He was educated at Eton.[CareerOrford was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, later commissioned a Captain, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. He was part of the Earl of Rosslyn's Special Embassy to the wedding of King Alfonso XII of Spain and Mercedes of Orléans on 9 Janua
Club Name
Carlton Club
Related Interests
Gentlemens Private Clubs
EAN
Does Not apply
Family Surname
Walpole
City/Town/Village/Place
London
England County
Middlesex
Era
1901-1910
Document Type
Manuscript Letter
Year of Issue
1901
Titled Families
5th Earl of Orford