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Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)

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The first British Prime Minister (1730-1742)
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    1676  CESir Robert Walpole (1676-1745), the first and longest serving prime minister of England, was born. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge and first intended to enter the Church but changed his mind and instead became active in politics. He collected a large number of paintings by old masters at his Houghton Hall home in Norfolk.
    1701  CERobert Walpole, a Whig, was elected to the British House of Commons.
    1708  CERobert Walpole was appointed Secretary of War.
    1710  CERobert Walpole was appointed Treasurer of the Navy.
    1714  CEBritain's Queen Anne dies and King George I arrives in England as the reigning monarch.
    1714  CEGeorge I of Hanover became King of England inheriting the throne under the Act of Settlement.
    1715  CERobert Walpole was made Chancellor of the Exchequer.
    1730  CERobert Walpole becomes England first prime minister (chief minister). He was not then called the prime minister as the king held all honors.
    1732  CERobert Walpole was given 10 Downing Street by King George II. It became the permanent home of all future British Prime Ministers.
    1739  CEBritain and Spain sign the second Convention of Pardo.
   Feb 1742  CEThe Tory opposition accused Robert Walpole of not supplying enough money for the British armed forces in the war with Spain. Walpole gradually lost the support of the House of Commons, and so the British Walpole government resigned.
    1742  CEBritish ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford.
    1745  CESir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, died.
 
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