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Robert Walpole, 5th Earl of Orford

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Orford was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, serving on HMS Blanche on the Australian station in the early 1870s, from where he visited New Zealand, New Guinea, Fiji, and other Pacific Islands. He was later commissioned a Captain, 4th Battalion,
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Orford married firstly, 17 May 1888, Louisa (d. 1909), daughter of D. C. Corbin, of New York, United States; they had a son, Horatio Corbin Walpole, who died in 1893 aged two years, and a daughter, the novelist
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on 9 January 1878, returning 6 February that year. On 10 August 1878, he was attached as private secretary to his cousin Sir
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The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic Office Year Book, ed. Godfrey E. P. Hertslet, 1917, Harrison, p. 479.
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Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, 2003, vol. 3, p. 4060.
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British peer, diplomat, soldier and Royal Navy officer
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Who's Who, vol. 58, A. & C. Black, 1906, p. 1285.
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Index

Foreign Office
Royal Navy
Frederick Walpole
North Norfolk
Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford
Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole
Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford
Eton
Norfolk Regiment
Earl of Rosslyn
Alfonso XII of Spain
Mercedes of Orléans
Henry Drummond Wolff
Eastern Rumelia
Deputy Lieutenant
Justice of the Peace
Dorothy
Thurgarton, Norfolk
Anne
horticulturist
CBE
TD
Robert James Berry






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