Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.
* He was the youngest son of the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole.
* He is best known for his first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest.
* He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors.
* He died in 1797 at the age of 79.

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