Electronic Enlightenment Biographical Dictionary

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Name : Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford

Dates : born 1717–died 1797

Nationality : English

Occupation : author; medievalist; member of Parliament; novelist; politician

Correspondents include : Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise Du Deffand [née de Vichy]; Thomas Gray; David Hume

Current document count : 54 written; 536 received . . . . 

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