Robert Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole

Robert Horatio Walpole, 10th Baron Walpole JP ( born December 8, 1938) is a British politician and peer.

Life and career

Walpole at Eton College and at the University of Cambridge, King's College. He reached a B. A. and an MA. From 1970 to 1981 he was a member of the Norfolk County Council. After the death of his father, Robert Walpole, 9th Baron Walpole, he was a member of the House of Lords. There he worked in various committees with. Walpole is one of 90 Hereditary Peers, 1999 retained their seat in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act. He sits there as a Cross Bencher. Since 2006 he has been Deputy Chairman of the Lighter Evenings Group and since 2007 it belongs to the Statutory Instruments Joint Committee and the European Union Sub - committee B (Internal Market) on.

Family

Lord Walpole is the father of seven children: Alice, Emma, Jonathan, Benedict, Roger, Henry and Grace. He is a descendant of Robert Walpole, the first British Premierminister.Sein legacy is his oldest son Jonathan Robert Hugh Walpole ( born November 16, 1967), a writer.