Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole

Robert Horatio Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole, JP (born 8 December 1938) is a British politician and former member 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 was 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.[1] He retired from Parliament on 13 June 2017.[2]

His heir is Jonathan Robert Hugh Walpole (born 16 November 1967), a writer; he has six other children including Alice Walpole, the British Ambassador to Mali, by his first wife, the former MP Judith Chaplin.

References

  1. 1 2 "Lord Walpole (incorrectly shows as Robin Walpole)". Parliament of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
  2. ↑ "Lord Walpole". UK Parliament.
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Robert Walpole 		Baron Walpole
1st creation
1989–present 		Incumbent
Heir apparent:
The Hon. Jonathan Walpole


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