Thomas Walpole (6 October 1727 – March 1803), styled from 1756 The Hon. Thomas Walpole, was a British MP and banker in Paris.

Life

Thomas Walpole was born into a political family. The second son of the 1st Baron Walpole and his wife Telisha, ''nee'' Lombard, he was the nephew of

Sir Robert Walpole Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745; known between 1725 and 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole) was a British statesman and Whig politician who, as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lea ...

, the prime minister from 1721 to 1742. Walpole entered into partnership with the merchant Sir Joshua Vanneck, and married his daughter Elizabeth Vanneck on 14 November 1753. She died on 9 June 1760.Neil Jeffares
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''Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800'', Online edition, 2008 He was MP for

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from 1754 to 1761, and MP for Ashburton from 1761 to 1768. In 1762 he was involved in efforts to engineer

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into a ''rapprochement'' with the

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. In 1768 he succeeded his cousin

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as MP for

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, sitting until 1784, when he was succeeded by his nephew Horatio Walpole. From 1753 to 1754 he served as a Director of the

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. In the early 1770s Walpole led a group of investors, including

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, to seek from the crown a land grant in

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In 1787 he married his second wife, Jeanne-Marguerite Batailhe de Montval. From 1799 until his death Walpole lived in a large house, today named Walpole House, on

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. His son Thomas (1755–1840) was British Ambassador to

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* 1727 births 1803 deaths British bankers Directors of the British East India Company Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Ashburton British MPs 1754–1761 British MPs 1761–1768 British MPs 1768–1774 British MPs 1774–1780 British MPs 1780–1784

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