Excerpt from Beauties of the British Senate, Vol. 1: Taken From the Debates of the Lords and Commons, From the Beginning of the Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, to the End of the Second Session of the Administration of the Right Hon. William Pitt

Sir Robert Walpole, whofe political hiftory forms as im portant an aera as any to be met with in the annals of the Bri tilh empire, was born on the 6th of September, 1674, at Houghton, in Norfolk, and appears to have been educated 'on the foundation ofeton School. 'he was eleéted to King's Col lege, in Cambridge, and admitted in the year 1681 but fue ceeding to the family e¿ate hythe death of his elder brother, he refigned his Fellowihip.

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