Background
Thomas Walpole was born into a political family. The second son of the 1st Baron Walpole and his wife Mary, nee Lombard, he was the nephew of Sir Robert Walpole, the prime minister from 1721 to 1742.
Thomas Walpole was born into a political family. The second son of the 1st Baron Walpole and his wife Mary, nee Lombard, he was the nephew of Sir Robert Walpole, the prime minister from 1721 to 1742.
Thomas Walpole, was a British Member of Parliament and banker in Paris. She died on 9 June 1760. He was Member of Parliament for Sudbury from 1754 to 1761, and Member of Parliament for Ashburton from 1761 ot 1768.
In 1762 he was involved in efforts to engineer William Pitt the Elder into a rapprochement with the Duke of Newcastle.
In the early 1770s Walpole led a group of investors, including Benjamin Franklin, to seek from the crown a land grant in Ohio. From 1799 until his death Walpole lived in a large house, today named Walpole House, on Chiswick Mall, Chiswick.
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