Spencer Horatio Walpole

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Spencer Horatio Walpole

Spencer Horatio Walpole PC QC ( September 11, 1806 - May 22, 1898 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party , who was a member of the House of Commons from 1846 to 1882, and from 1852, 1858 to 1859 and between 1866 and 1867 Minister of the Interior was.

Life

Walpole was the third child of the diplomat Robert Walpole and his wife Margaret Perceval. A younger brother was Robert Walpole , who served as a lieutenant general in the British Indian Army . His grandfather Thomas Walpole was also a member of the House of Commons between 1754 and 1780 and a son of Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton . His mother was a daughter of John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont .

He graduated after attending the prestigious Eton College to study law at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge and took after his statements and his legal approval to the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) from Lincoln's Inn in 1831 working as a lawyer on. For his legal services he was appointed Crown Attorney (Queen's Counsel) in 1846 .

On January 30, 1846, Walpole was elected to the House of Commons for the first time, where he initially represented the Midhurst constituency until February 11, 1856 and then between February 11, 1856 and 1882 the Cambridge University constituency .

He was appointed to the first government of Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby on February 27, 1852 and held the post of Home Secretary for the first time until December 19, 1852 . At the same time he became a member of the Privy Council in 1852 .

He also held the office of Minister of the Interior in the second government of the Earl of Derby from February 26, 1858 until his replacement by Thomas Sotheron-Estcourt on March 3, 1859.

In the third government of the Earl of Derby, he took over from July 6, 1866 to May 17, 1867 again as Minister of the Interior.

His marriage to Isabella Perceval, a daughter of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval , who was killed in an assassination attempt in 1812 , resulted in a daughter and two sons on October 6, 1835 . The elder son Spencer Walpole was a noted historian and Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man between 1882 and 1893 .

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SURNAME Walpole, Spencer Horatio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1806
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1898