'The House of Commons in the Eighteenth Century', 1730, (1947). Session of parliament in the Palace of Westminster, London. The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, is on the left. Speaker Arthur Onslow is in the Speaker's Chair. Walpole (1676-1745) served as Britain's de facto first Prime Minister between 1721and 1742. After 'Speaker Arthur Onslow calling upon Sir Robert Walpole to speak in the House of Commons', a painting of 1730, in the National Trust collection at Clandon Park, Surrey. From "The House of Commons", by Martin Lindsay [Collins, London, 1947]

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