Horatio Walpole 4th Earl of Orford also known as Horace Walpole was an English 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 his Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto 1764 and his Letters which are of significant social and political interest
He was the son of firs...