Thomas Walpole
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Thomas Walpole (6 October 1727 – March 1803), styled from 1756 The Hon. Thomas Walpole, was a British MP and banker in Paris.
Life
Thomas Walpole was born into a political family. The second son of the 1st Baron Walpole and his wife Telisha, nee Lombard, he was the nephew of Sir Robert Walpole, the prime minister from 1721 to 1742.
Walpole entered into partnership with the merchant Sir Joshua Vanneck,William Stanhope Taylor and John Henry Pringle, eds., Correspondence of William Pitt, John Murray, 1838, vol. 2, p. 328 and married his daughter Elizabeth Vanneck on 14 November 1753. She died on 9 June 1760.Neil Jeffares, [http://www.pastellists.com/Genealogies/Walpole.pdf Iconographical genealogies: Walpole], Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, Online edition, 2008
He was MP for Sudbury from 1754 to 1761, and MP for Ashburton from 1761 to 1768. In 1762 he was involved in efforts to engineer William Pitt the Elder into a rapprochement with the Duke of Newcastle.George Thomas, Earl of Albemarle, Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and his contemporaries, 149-151 In 1768 he succeeded his cousin Horace Walpole as MP for Lynn, sitting until 1784, when he was succeeded by his nephew Horatio Walpole.
From 1753 to 1754 he served as a Director of the East India Company. In the early 1770s Walpole led a group of investors, including Benjamin Franklin, to seek from the crown a land grant in Ohio.Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations on the petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, esquires, and their associates for a grant of lands on the River Ohio, in North America, for the purpose of erecting a new government : with observations and remarks, 1772. B.A. Hinsdale. "The Western Land Policy of the British Government from 1763 to 1775." Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. Volume I (December 1887) 207-229.
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In 1787 he married his second wife, Jeanne-Marguerite Batailhe de Montval. From 1799 until his death Walpole lived in a large house, today named Walpole House, on Chiswick Mall, Chiswick.[http://chiswickhistory.org.uk/html/080-grandhouses.html 'GRAND HOUSES'], chiswickhistory.org.uk
His son Thomas (1755–1840) was British Ambassador to Munich.{{acad|id=WLPL773T|name=Walpole, Thomas}}
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Category:Directors of the British East India Company
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