- Born on December 8, 1678
- Deceased on February 5, 1757, at the age of 78 years
Parents
- Robert Walpole (1650 - 1700), Member of Parliament for Castle Rising, colonel
- Mary Burwell (1654 - 1711)
Family
- Married on July 21, 1720, with Mary Magdalene Lombard (1695 - 1783), issuing
- Horatio (1723 - 1809)
Occupations
- ambassador to France (1724 - 1730)
- ambassador to the United Provinces (1734 - 1739)
- secretary to the Treasury (1715 - 1717, 1721 - 1730)
- chief Secretary for Ireland (1720 - 1721)
- teller of the Receipt of the Exchequer (1741 - 1757)
- Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel (1710)
- Member of Parliament for Castle Rising (1713 - 1715)
- Member of Parliament for Bere Alston (1715 - 1717)
- Member of Parliament for East Looe (1718 - 1722)
- Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth (1722 - 1734)
- Member of Parliament for Norwich (1734 - 1756)
- privy counsellor