Robert Walpole

(1781-1856)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Walpole, Robert, 1781-1856 DNB: Walpole, Robert (1781-1856), classical scholar LBT ID: RoWalpo1856 LOC ID: nr95025615	B/BAP: 1781-08-08 DIED: 1856-04-16
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Educated at Charterhouse, Merton College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a classical scholar, Greek traveler, and author of Comicorum Graecorum fragmenta (1805). Maria Edgeworth described him as ”a tall, dark-eyed, fine, fashionable-looking man.”
REFERENCES TO Robert Walpole: Robert Southey to John May, 5 August 1805 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch XXIII. Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XI. 1804-1805 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 48 Chap. XXII. Found 1: ¶ 7