Sir Robert Walpole

I have more than once heard my father Sir Robert Walpole say, that it was he himself who gave that translation to Mr. Addison, who was extremely surprised at the fidelity and beauty of it.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

At length he emancipated himself from the restraint, in which he was kept, and formed a party of his own; and conceived an antipathy against Sir Robert Walpole, his father's minister.

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812