George Walpole (1730 - 1791)

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George Walpole was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

He was the son of Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford and Margaret Rolle, the Baroness Clinton.^[1]He was born on the 2nd of April 1730.^[1]He died on the 5th of Dec 1791 insane and unmarried.^[1] However, "There is documentary evidence that he had an illegitimate daughter, named Georgina Walpole, whose mother was Mary Sparrow of Eriswell"^[2].

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. volume 1, page 824.
2. ↑ "Anthony Hamond of Westacre - Correspondence". HMN 4/46/1-9 1792-1806, 1813. The National Archives (held at Norfolk Record Office). Retrieved 22 June 2013. "Letters concerning the affairs of Georgina Walpole, natural daughter of Lord Orford..."

• John Burke. A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. England. Publisher H. Colburn & R. Bentley, 1831. Pg. 555[1]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Walpole,_3rd_Earl_of_Orford