Robert Horatio Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole, JP (born 8 December 1938) is a British politician and one of ninety elected hereditary peers of the House of Lords.
Walpole is a relative of Sir Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister. He descends through Robert Walpole's father Robert Walpole. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he received a B.A. and an M.A. He served on the County Council of Norfolk for eleven years from 1970 to 1981,[1] then entered the House of Lords upon the death of his father. He is a crossbencher and was elected to continue serving in the Lords after the House of Lords Act 1999 prevented most hereditary peers from sitting in that body without election.[1]
His heir is Jonathan Robert Hugh Walpole (born 16 November 1967), a writer; he has six other children.
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| Preceded by Robert Walpole |
Baron Walpole 1st creation 1989 - present |
Incumbent Heir apparent: The Hon. Jonathan Robert Hugh Walpole |
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