Person1676 – 1745
Robert Walpole
Also called: Walpole, Earl of Orford
British Whig statesman who led the government from 1721 to 1742 and is called the first prime minister, beginning the practice of cabinet responsibility
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From 1721 the Whig Robert Walpole led the cabinet and came to be called the first prime minister; when he lost the support of the Commons in 1742 he resigned, beginning the practice of a cabinet responsible to Parliament.
Themes this person appears in
- Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796
The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution