LXXXV. Sir Robert Walpole.(1676-1745) LXXXVI. James Thomson.. (1700-1748) 30 count Bolingbroke (1678-1751) 50 LXXXVIII. George Berkeley .. (1684-1753) 70 Wolfe..... .............(1726—1759) 104 XC. Benjamin Hoadly. (1676-1761) 115 XCI. Samuel Richardson.(1689-1761) 129 XCII. Edward Young... (1681-1765) 144 XCIII. John Jortin...... (1698-1770) 165 of Chesterfield.. (1694-1773) 206 XCVI. Oliver Goldsmith. .(1729-1774) 232 of Chatham.... (1708-1778) 251 XCVIII. Samuel Johnson.. (1709-1784) 301 : THE BRITISH PLUTARCH. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD.* [1676-1745.] THIS statesman, whose transactions make a conspicuous figure in the annals of the first two Georges, was born at Houghton in August 1676, of a family which had flourished in the county of Norfolk from the time of the Conquest. After being initiated in the rudiments of learning in his native county, he was placed on the foundation at Eton, and thence in 1696 elected to King's College, Cambridge. Here he first became known by * AUTHORITIES. Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors, the New General Biographical Dictionary, and Coxe's Life of Sir Robert Walpole. † A collection being made, after he was Prime Minister, for the New Building at this place, he subscribed 500l.; saying, "I deserve no thanks, I have only paid for my board." Neither VOL. VI. B |