Robert Walpole 1650-1700
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Robert WALPOLE 1650-1700
Biographical Note
Of Houghton Hall, Norfolk; MP.
Books
Many of his books survive at Houghton; family accounts show that he actively purchased books in London and at East Anglian fairs. A catalogue of the house collection made in 1717 lists ca.850 titles.
Sources
- Dunn, Richard Minta. "Walpole, Robert (1650–1700), agricultural improver and politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- West, Susie, The development of libraries in Norfolk country houses (UEA Ph.D thesis, 2000).