Thomas Walpole 1727-1803

Paternal Family Tree: Walpole

On 21st July 1720 [his father] Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole [aged 41] and [his mother] Mary Magdalen Lombard [aged 25] were married.

On 25th October 1727 Thomas Walpole was born to Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole [aged 48] and Mary Magdalen Lombard [aged 32].

On 12th May 1748 [his brother] Horatio Walpole 1st Earl Orford [aged 24] and [his sister-in-law] Rachel Cavendish [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of William Cavendish 3rd Duke Devonshire [aged 49] and Catherine Hoskins Duchess Devonshire [aged 49].

1752. Arthur Devis [aged 39]. Portrait of [his future father-in-law] Joshua Vanneck 1st Baronet [aged 50] and Family. Sitters believed to be left to right: Joshua Vanneck 1st Baronet, Mrs. de la Mont (likely his sister), Henry Uthoff (Anna Maria's husband), [his future brother-in-law] Gerard [aged 8] (son), Gertrude (daughter, with telescope), Joshua [aged 6] (son, on ground), Margaret [aged 9] (youngest daughter, on ground), Anna Mara [aged 18], Elizabeth [aged 20] (eldest daughter), and Thomas Walpole [aged 24] (Elizabeth's husband and cousin of Horace Walpole [aged 34]).

In 1753 Thomas Walpole [aged 25] was appointed Director of the East India Company which position he held until 1754.

On 14th November 1753 Thomas Walpole [aged 26] and Elizabeth Vanneck [aged 21] were married. She the daughter of his business partner Joshua Vanneck 1st Baronet [aged 52]. A Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings; her sister Margaret Vanneck [aged 10] had married his brother Richard Walpole [aged 25].

In 1754 Thomas Walpole [aged 26] was elected MP Sudbury which seat he held until 1761.

On 23rd May 1755 [his son] Thomas Walpole was born to Thomas Walpole [aged 27] and [his wife] Elizabeth Vanneck [aged 23]. He married 30th September 1805 Margaret Perceval, daughter of John Perceval 2nd Earl Egmont and Catherine Cecil Countess Egmont, and had issue.

On 4th January 1756 [his father] Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole [aged 77] was created 1st Baron Walpole of Wollerton.

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On 5th February 1757 [his father] Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole [aged 78] died at Wickmere, Norfolk. His son [his brother] Horatio [aged 33] succeeded 2nd Baron Walpole of Wollerton.

On 9th June 1760 [his wife] Elizabeth Vanneck [aged 28] died. She was buried in the Church of St Andrew, Wickmere [Map] on 17th June 1760.

In 1761 Thomas Walpole [aged 33] was elected MP Ashburton which seat he held until 1768.

In 1768 Thomas Walpole [aged 40] was elected MP Lynn which seat he held until 1784.

In 1783 [his mother] Mary Magdalen Lombard [aged 88] died.

In 1787 Thomas Walpole [aged 59] and Jeanne-Marguerite Batailhe de Montval were married.

Before 17th August 1798 Richard Walpole [aged 70] and Margaret Vanneck [aged 55] were married. A Marriage of Two Sets of Siblings; her sister Elizabeth Vanneck had married his brother Thomas Walpole [aged 70].

On 1st December 1803 Thomas Walpole [aged 76] died.