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A most efficient public servant and in private life well-conversed, Walpole became a successfully published historian. His family connections gave him a natural affinity for the study of public affairs, and their mingling of
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and Tory policies of past and present contributed to a deliberately reasoned, judicious and balanced view of English political figures – he inclined, however, to the Whig or moderate
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prime minister. The only mainstream political parties in his lifetime which were at that time taking shape as the
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parties were therefore closely connected to him at birth, and each party icon formed one half of his name.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Among his other publications come his lives of Spencer Perceval (1894) and
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A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815
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side, including in his writing. His principal work, the
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Matthew, H. C. G. "'Walpole, Sir Spencer (1839–1907)".
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Spencer Horatio Walpole
Sir
KCB
FBA

Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man
Victoria
The Lord Loch
Sir West Ridgeway
KCB
FBA
English
historian
de facto
Robert Walpole
Whig Party
1st Baron Walpole
Spencer Horatio Walpole
Home Secretary
14th Earl of Derby
Spencer Perceval
Tory
Liberal
Conservative
Eton
War Office
lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Man
Post Office
knighted
Whig

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