Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford

Politician and collector.

His father, Horatio Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (1752–1822), ‘voted against the abolition of the slave trade, 15 Mar. 1796’ (R. Thorne, ‘WALPOLE, Hon. Horatio (1752-1822), of Piddletown, Dorset’, in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History [online], London, 1964 -, 1790-1820 <https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/walpole-hon-horatio-1752-1822> accessed 2 August 2021). His great uncle, Thomas Walpole (1727–1803) (UCL Department of History, ‘Hon. Thomas Walpole’, in UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership [online], London 2020, <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146645271> accessed 2 August 2021), was an owner of enslaved people on Grenada and Tobago.

Horatio Walpole, the 2nd Earl of Orford, later changed his views, and ‘He even became a ’staunch’ supporter of the abolition of the slave trade‘. (R. Thorne, ’WALPOLE, Hon. Horatio (1752-1822), of Piddletown, Dorset', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History [online], London, 1964 -, 1790-1820 <https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/walpole-hon-horatio-1752-1822> accessed 2 August 2021.)

Former owner: NG purchased from Walpole in 1856: NG282.

R. Healey and M. Escott, 'WALPOLE, Horatio, Lord Walpole (1783-1858), of Wolterton, Norf. and 11 Berkeley Square, Mdx', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1820-1832, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/walpole-horatio-1783-1858
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C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://www.oxforddnb.com/
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R. G. Thorne, 'WALPOLE, Horatio, Lord Walpole (1783-1858), of Wolterton, Norf.', in History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, 1790-1820, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/walpole-horatio-1783-1858
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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