Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), also known as Horace Walpole, the son of the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, south-west London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest.

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