Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole

Walpole was descended from Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole (of Wolterton), a younger brother of Sir Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister. He was the 10th and 8th Baron Walpole (of two different creations). His ancestors include Sir Robert's father, Colonel Robert Walpole (1650–1700).

He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he received a BA and an MA. He served on Norfolk County Council for eleven years from 1970 to 1981.{{cite web |title=Lord Walpole (incorrectly shows as Robin Walpole) |url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/robert-walpole/26494 |url-status=dead |publisher=Parliament of the United Kingdom |access-date=2012-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103023756/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/robert-walpole/26494 |archive-date=2013-01-03}}

He entered the House on the death of his father in 1989. He was a crossbencher and was internally elected to continue serving after the House of Lords Act 1999 prevented most hereditary peers from sitting. He retired from Parliament on 13 June 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-walpole/1817|title=Lord Walpole|publisher=UK Parliament}}

Walpole and his first wife Judith (née Schofield, later Chaplin) had four children, including Jonathan Robert Hugh Walpole (his heir, born 16 November 1967) and the diplomat Alice Walpole. The couple divorced in 1979. In 1980, Walpole married Laurel Celia Ball, with whom he had three further children.

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His father's net estate at his death in February 1989 was sworn as £2,065,295 ({{Inflation|GBP|2065295|1989|r=-3|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}).Probate Calendars of England and Wales: 1989 at page 8454 In April 2016 he sold Wolterton Hall, the house commissioned by his ancestor the 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton in 1742, where Walpole and his father had lived. He lived nearby at Mannington Hall, a house owned by his family since the 18th century.

Walpole died on 8 May 2021, aged 82.{{cite web|last=Bishop|first=Donna-Louise|title=Tributes paid to Lord Robert Walpole who has died aged 82 |url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/obituaries/tributes-paid-to-lord-robert-robin-walpole-7968206|website=Eastern Daily Press|date=12 May 2021|access-date=28 May 2023}} The peerage was inherited by his eldest son, Jonathan Robert Hugh Walpole, who became the 11th Baron Walpole.

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