Robert Walpole

One of the letters confirms that Voltaire – born Francois-Marie Arouet – received a pension of £200, no mean sum, from Robert Walpole's government, probably at the request of Queen Caroline, the wife of George II.

Letters reveal Voltaire's exposure to English empiricism 2012

It's fantastic, said Huston, who is descended on one side of his family from the American Huston film dynasty of Angelica, Danny and John, and on the other from English aristocracy going back to prime minister Robert Walpole.

The Young British Actors taking Hollywood by storm 2011

Houghton Hall, a grand Palladian mansion of silver-white stone, was built to be the country seat of Robert Walpole, Britain's first prime minister.

Georgian architecture: examples from the era 2011

Some of the images are tastelessly timeless, like the anonymous 18th-century etching "Idol-Worship or the Way to Preferment," which shows gentlemen kissing the enormous posterior of Robert Walpole, a politician widely regarded as Britain's first prime minister.

'Rude Britannia' spotlights artists' comic view of British politics, culture 2010

For example, before his February 2003 presentation to the U.N. outlining the case for going to war with Iraq, Colin Powell spent the better part of a week at the CIA with Tenet, McLaughlin, and Robert Walpole, the national intelligence officer for strategic programs.

COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010

For example, before his February 2003 presentation to the U.N. outlining the case for going to war with Iraq, Colin Powell spent the better part of a week at the CIA with Tenet, McLaughlin, and Robert Walpole, the national intelligence officer for strategic programs.

COURAGE AND CONSEQUENCE KARL ROVE 2010

Swift, Pope, Fielding and Johnson all attacked Robert Walpole, the first British prime minister; Hogarth caricatured him and Gay put him on stage in The Beggar's Opera as the criminal Jonathan Wild.

Archive 2009-06-01 Rus Bowden 2009

Swift, Pope, Fielding and Johnson all attacked Robert Walpole, the first British prime minister; Hogarth caricatured him and Gay put him on stage in The Beggar's Opera as the criminal Jonathan Wild.

News at Eleven: It is Dryden's attack on the Duke of Buckingham, Rus Bowden 2009

Notes 1,2 and 3 are suggestions by Robert Walpole from Hastings, England, many thanks to him.

Elmore James Lyrics 2009

Sadly, and despite Brown's risible claims to saviour status, there's no sign of a latter-day equivalent to Robert Walpole, who picked up the pieces after the South Sea Bubble.

Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009