plorable and comfortless condition’ (Horatio Walpole to R. Trevor, 17 June 1738, Buckinghamshire MSS. p. 17), which ended in a severe illness. By her he had two illegitimate daughters, one of whom died before 1738 (see Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. i. 327). Of the other (Catherine), Horace Walpole narrates that her father had intended to marry her to Edmund Keene [q. v.], then rector of Stanhope (Letters, ii. 318). On his retirement he obtained from the king a patent of precedence for her as an earl's daughter, which ‘raised a torrent of wrath against him’ (Culloden Papers, p. 175). She married Colonel Charles Churchill, illegitimate son of General Charles Churchill [q. v.] by Anne Oldfield [q. v.] She became housekeeper at Windsor Castle, and died about the beginning of the present century (Collins, Peerage, ed. Brydges, v. 662).
Walpole successively occupied several houses in London. In 1716 he lived on the west side of Arlington Street, on the site of the present No. 17 (Wheatley, Round about Piccadilly, &c., 1870, p. 172), and also occupied a house at Chelsea. In 1722 he bought another house at Chelsea ‘next the college’ for 1,100l. (Wheatley, London, i. 379). Here he and Lady Walpole lived much during the summer months, and he retained it till his death (Beaver, Memorials of Old Chelsea, 1892, p. 288). In 1727 his son, Lord Walpole, was appointed ranger of Richmond Park. Sir Robert, for the convenience of hunting, then hired a house on Richmond Hill, pending the construction of the house built by him in the park called ‘The Old Lodge,’ on the site now known as Spanker's Hill Enclosure (H. Walpole, Reminiscences, vol. i. p. xcvii; Chancellor, Hist. of Richmond, 1894, pp. 217–18). The official house in Downing Street was offered him by George II in 1731, but it needed reconstruction, and he did not move into it till 22 Sept. 1735 (Wheatley, London, i. 519), occupying in the interval a house in St. James's Square (see Dasent, Hist. of St. James's Square, 1895, pp. 82–3). In 1742 he left Downing Street for a small house in Arlington Street (No. 5), where he died (Walpole, Letters, i. 181, 324).
There are numerous portraits and engravings of Walpole. Of these, the most pleasing is that by Jervas, engraved by Lodge, evidently taken in 1725–6, since he wears the order of the Bath. He there appears as a tall and handsome young man. Later in life he became corpulent and his legs swelled. Another portrait, engraved from an enamel painting by Zincke, forms the frontispiece to Coxe's ‘Memoirs’ (vol. i.). It is taken in his robes as chancellor of the exchequer. An engraving of a seated portrait by Eckardt, in his robes as K.G., together with his first wife in a standing position, is given in P. Cunningham's edition of ‘ Horace Walpole's Letters’ (ix. 482). Two portraits, by Hayman and Van Loo respectively, are in the National Portrait Gallery, London. An engraving from a portrait by Richardson, taken in advanced life, is in T. Park's edition of ‘Royal and Noble Authors’ (1806, iv. 196), and another, taken after 1742, in Collins's ‘Peerage’ (ed. Brydges, v. 653; cf. Evans, Catalogue of Engraved Portraits). A statue of him is in Houghton church.
