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4th Earl of Orford 1717-1797. English
novelist and politician, the son of Robert
Walpole. He was a Whig member of Parliament
1741-67. He converted his house at Strawberry
Hill, Twickenham (then a separate town SW of
London), into a Gothic castle; his The Castle
of Otranto 1764 established the genre of the
Gothic, or `romance of terror', novel.