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3. Practical hints on domestic and rural OEconoray relating 

 partly to the utility, formation and management of Fruit, 

 Kitchen, and Cottage Gardens and Orchards, &c. Lon- 

 don, 1820, 8vo. 



HORACE WALPOLE, EARL of ORFORD, the youngest 

 son of Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of George the 1st, 

 was born in 1718. He was educated at Eton, and King's 

 College, Cambridge. In 1738 lie entered upon public life as 

 Inspector General of Exports and Imports, which office he ex- 

 changed for Usher of the Exchequer. He was also appointed 

 Comptroller of the Pipe, and Clerk of the Extracts. In 1739 

 he travelled into France and Italy with Mr. Gray, the Poet, 

 who had been his fellow Student at Eton, but at Florence they 

 quarrelled and parted ; they were however reconciled a few 

 years afterwards. In 1741 he was the representative in Parli- 

 ament of Callington in Cornwall ; in 1747 he was elected for 

 Castle Rising, and in the two succeeding Parliaments for Lynn. 

 In 17G8, he retired from pubUc business to his seat at Straw- 

 berry Hill, near Twickenham. In 1791, he became Earl of 

 Orford, on the death of his nephew, but never appeared in his 

 seat as a Peer of Parliament. He died March the 2nd, 1797. 



The following portraits have been engraved of him. 1. A 

 three-quarter length, when a Commoner, by M'Ardell, 1757, 

 after Sir J. Reynold's. 2. By Pariset after Falconet, 3. By 

 B. Reading after Reynolds' 



ThattheEarlof Orford was a man of taste, and an encoiirager 

 of the men of genius of his age is the best light in which as a 

 public character we can look upon him ; that he was gifted 

 with a strong genius though often asserted is very doubtful 

 that his researches were frequently superficial his writings 

 testify, and this is further supported by the fact that he was 

 a Sceptic. He very powerfully contributed to abolish the 

 mathematical style of Gardening, being one of the most stre- 



