[wawl-pohl, wol-] 
| 1. | Horace, 4th Earl of Or⋅ford [awr-ferd] , (Horatio Walpole ), 1717–97, English novelist and essayist (son of Sir Robert Walpole). |
| 2. | Sir Hugh Seymour, 1884–1941, English novelist, born in New Zealand. |
| 3. | Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Or⋅ford [awr-ferd] , 1676–1745, British statesman: prime minister 1715–17; 1721–42. |
| 4. | a city in E Massachusetts. 18,859. |
| Wal·pole (wôl'pōl', wŏl'-) British writer and historian whose correspondence and memoirs provide valuable information about his era. He wrote The Castle of Otranto (1764), considered the first Gothic novel in English. |
| Walpole, Sir Robert. First Earl of Orford. 1676-1745. English politician who as first lord of the treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1715-1717 and 1721-1742) led the Whig administration and is regarded as Britain's first prime minister. |