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  1. 4th Earl of Orford 1717-1797. English
  2. novelist and politician, the son of Robert
  3. Walpole. He was a Whig member of Parliament
  4. 1741-67. He converted his house at Strawberry
  5. Hill, Twickenham (then a separate town SW of
  6. London), into a Gothic castle; his The Castle
  7. of Otranto 1764 established the genre of the
  8. Gothic, or `romance of terror', novel.
  9.