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    Henry Walpole (1558 – 7 April 1595) was an English Jesuit martyr, executed at York for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy. Walpole was born at Docking...
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    rather than Walpole, to write his first speech as king, but Compton asked Walpole to draft it. Caroline advised George to retain Walpole, who continued...
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    Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (French: [dɔlbak]; 8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist...
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    The Grade I listed building Walpole House is the largest, finest, and most complicated of the grand houses on Chiswick Mall, a waterfront street in the...
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  • Léon-Henri Roth (29 August 1922 – 24 March 1945) was a resistance fighter. In addition, his information (he passed while being a forced labourer), had...
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    Henry Biard (also known as Henri) was a British pilot and aircraft racer. As chief test pilot for the British aircraft manufacturer Supermarine, he won...
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  • Charles Delaney as Pierre Henry Sedley as Henri, Jeanne's Father Edward Roseman as Jules Payette Stanley Walpole Jacobs & Braum p.71 Jack Jacobs & Myron...
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    control of the design herself. In 1727, Sarah's political rival Sir Robert Walpole purchased the lot between Marlborough House and Pall Mall through his protégé...
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    Performing Arts – Costume Design 1979, Designer of The Year in 1972 and the Walpole British Luxury Legend Award 2019. A Rhodes dress featured on a commemorative...
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    Great to Rousseau. It had actually been composed by Horace Walpole as a playful hoax. Walpole had never met Rousseau, but he was well acquainted with Diderot...
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  • word "philosophe" has been used in English since the Middle Ages. Horace Walpole in 1779 remarked that "[t]he philosophes, except Buffon, are solemn, arrogant...
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  • Connor Dunn (series 6), an associate of Jack Nelson's. Assaad Bouab as Henri (series 6), a bartender on Miquelon Island. Franc Bruneau as Miquelon Island...
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  • Tylney, 2nd Earl Tylney (1712-1784) Charlotte Charke (1713-1760) Horace Walpole (1717-1797) Caroline Stanhope, Countess of Harrington (1722-1784) Edward...
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    photographer Angus McBean. He sold the property in 2006. After this, he purchased Walpole House on Chiswick Mall (a waterfront street on the north bank of the river...
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    Jessica "Jessie", née Weir. Previously the wife of Major Kenneth Chamney Walpole Hollway, she had been the mistress of several men, including Sir Hugh Smiley...
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  • Jan 1945 HMT Huddersfield Town 1939 Anti-submarine, sold 1945 HMT Hugh Walpole Aug 1939 Anti-submarine sold Apr 1946 HMT Humphrey Oct 1939 Minesweeper...
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    v t e Leaders of the House of Commons Walpole Sandys Pelham Robinson H. Fox Pitt the Elder Vacant (caretaker ministry) Pitt the Elder Grenville H. Fox...
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  • Jack Branning Scott Maslen 2007–2013, 2015–present Will Mitchell Toby Walpole 2007–2012, 2014–present Freddie Phillips Penny Branning Mia McKenna-Bruce...
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    'Monk' Lewis's The Monk (1795). In the preface of the second edition, Walpole claims The Castle of Otranto is "an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance...
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    Plenipotentiary 1771–1800: Hon. Robert Walpole Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 1786: William Fawkener (jointly with Walpole) for negotiating commercial affairs...
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    Burgesses and the Council, was replaced by Hugh Drysdale, once Robert Walpole was convinced to act. We normally think about pirates as sort of blood-lusting...
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Hugh Walpole all of whom spent extended periods in the city[citation needed]. Hawthorne...
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  • (Boardman), Leslie Sands (Superintendent Travers), John Barron (Henry Walpole), Jennifer Wright (Mary Harkness), Carmel McSharry (Bella), Robert James...
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  • Laurie Kellman, David Lerman, Susan Platt, Dr. Benjamin Robertson, Mark Walpole 21 Eraser Warner Bros. Pictures Chuck Russell (director); Tony Puryear...
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    to Vienna a huge success. His wife's health was always fragile, Horace Walpole described her as such a Semele. In 1766, Henrietta suddenly died in Vienna...
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    the maintenance of peace was a preoccupation he shared with Sir Robert Walpole, and the two old enemies refrained from war during Fleury's ministry. Some...
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  • 1701–1750 1726 Former Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England 545 Robert Walpole 1676–1745 1726 Later Earl of Orford (Then) Current Prime Minister...
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    not to its esthetic experience." Woolf also noted in a letter to Hugh Walpole in 1936, that she is re-reading it for the sixth time: "I'd forgotten how...
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    fact, entirely their own work. The Gothic novel, beginning with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), was an important precursor of one strain...
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    Alphonsus Rodriguez José María Rubio Robert Southwell André de Soveral Henry Walpole Francis Xavier Alfonso Rodríguez Olmedo Popes Francis Theology Diego Laynez...
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