Horatio William Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (18 April 1813 – 7 December 1894), styled Lord Walpole between 1822 and 1858, was a British peer and

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politician.

Background

Orford was the son of

Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, (14 June 1783 – 29 December 1858), styled Lord Walpole between 1809 and 1822, was a British peer and politician. Background He was the eldest son of Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford by his wife Sophia C ...

, and Mary, daughter of William Augustus Fawkener.

Political career

In 1835, at the age of 21, Orford was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for Norfolk East, a seat he held until 1837. In 1858 he succeeded his father in the earldom and took his seat in the

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. He referred to the famed advocate of women's rights

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as "a hyena in petticoats".

Family

Lord Orford married Harriet Bettina Frances, daughter of Admiral the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew, in 1841. He "treated her with grotesquely violent cruelty" and in 1846 she went to live in Florence. They had two daughters. * Lady Dorothy Elizabeth Mary Walpole (1842-1921), married Don Ernesto del Balzo, 7. Duca di Caprigliano, Duca del Balzo * Lady Maude Mary Walpole (b.9 Aug 1844), married Count Salvatore Grifeo and Grevana, Prince Palagonia She died in November 1886. Lord Orford survived her by eight years and died in December 1894, aged 81. He was succeeded in the earldom by his nephew, Robert. Lord Orford had an illegitimate child, Horatio Walpole, by the

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, wife of the 5th Duke of Newcastle and daughter of

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Orford, Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl Of 1813 births 1894 deaths Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs who inherited peerages

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Earls of Orford Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers