UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 26 August 1676

Died: 18 March 1745

1st Viscount Walpole - 6 February 1742

1st Earl of Orford - 6 February 1742

1st Baron Houghton - 6 February 1742

Knighted - 1726

Member of Privy Council - 29 September 1714

Secretary at War	February 1708	September 1710
Treasurer of the Navy	January 1710	June 1711
Paymaster of the Forces	October 1714	October 1715
Chancellor of the Exchequer	October 1715	October 1717
Chancellor of the Exchequer	April 1721	11 February 1742
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	15 May 1730	11 February 1742

11 January 1701	Castle Rising	Whig
1 December 1701	Castle Rising	Whig
9 October 1710	Castle Rising	Whig
November 1710 Robert Walpole elects to sit for King's Lynn.