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Sir Edward Walpole KB PC (Ire) (1706 – 12 January 1784) was a British politician, and a younger son of Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister from 1721 to 1742.
Walpole, Edward (1706–84), MP and chief secretary for Ireland (1737–41), was born in Frogmore, Berkshire, England, second son of Sir Robert Walpole, politician and landowner, and his first wife Catherine (née Shorter).
Hon. Edward Walpole (1706-1784) Born: 1706. Clerk of the Pells. Died: 12th January 1784 at Isleworth, Middlesex. Edward was the second son of the first Prime Minster of Great Britain, Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, and his first wife, Catherine daughter of John Shorter of Bybrook in Kent.
Robert Walpole, 1. Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC (* 26. August 1676 in Houghton, Norfolk; † 18. März 1745 in London) war ab 1721 faktisch, ab 1730 auch formell erster Premierminister Großbritanniens, bis zu seinem Rücktritt im Februar 1742.
Brought into Parliament in 1730, Edward Walpole, aged 24, was appointed joint secretary of the Treasury in succession to his uncle, old Horace Walpole, whom he also succeeded at Yarmouth in 1734.
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG PC (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British Whig politician who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain [a] from 1721 to 1742.
WALPOLE, Hon. Sir Edward (1706-84), of Frogmore, Berks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754-1790 , ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964 Available from Boydell and Brewer