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 WORKS BY Robert Walpole:

Specimens of Scarce Translations of the Seventeenth Century from the Latin Poets to which are added Miscellaneous Translations from the Greek, Spanish, Italian, &c..