horace walpole, 4th earl orford
noun
1.
fərd2.
Sir Hugh Seymour, 1884–1941, English novelist, born in New Zealand.
3.
4.
a city in E Massachusetts.
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| 1. | Horace, 4th Earl of Orford. 1717--97, British writer, noted for his letters and for his delight in the Gothic, as seen in his house Strawberry Hill and his novel The Castle of Otranto (1764) |
| 2. | Sir Hugh (Seymour). 1884--1941, British novelist, born in New Zealand: best known for The Herries Chronicle (1930--33), a sequence of historical novels set in the Lake District |
| 3. | Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford. 1676--1745, English Whig statesman. As first lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1721--42) he was effectively Britain's first prime minister |
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