{"aliases":[],"awards":["Fellow of the Royal Society"],"biography_summary":"Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (; 24 September 1717 \u2013 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was a British Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian. He had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham, southwest London, reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. They have been published by Yale University Press in 48 volumes. In 2017, a volume of Walpole's selected letters was published. The youngest son of the first British prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, he became the 4th and last Earl of Orford of the second creation on his nephew's death in 1791.","birth_date":"1717-09-24","birth_place":"London","birth_place_coordinates":{"latitude":51.507222,"longitude":-0.1275},"birth_place_wikidata_id":"Q84","birth_place_wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84","canonical_name":"Horace Walpole","canonical_url":"https://ko.instaget.online/people/750e68b67868258c3755dc72","citizenships":["Kingdom of Great Britain"],"death_date":"1797-03-02","description":"English writer and politician (1717\u20131797)","external_ids":{"imdb":{"id":"nm1368279","url":"https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1368279/"},"isni":{"id":"0000000108744758","url":"https://isni.org/isni/0000000108744758"},"loc":{"id":"n80126297","url":"https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126297.html"},"viaf":{"id":"17231985","url":"https://viaf.org/viaf/17231985/"}},"full_name":"Horace Walpole","height_cm":null,"names":{"aliases":["Sir Horace Walpole","Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole","Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford","Onuphrio Muralto","Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford","Horatio Walpole"],"birth":[],"native":[{"language":"en","source_property":"P1559","value":"Horace Walpole"}],"official":[]},"native_name":null,"notable_works":["The Castle of Otranto"],"occupations":["writer","novelist","autobiographer","politician","art collector"],"official_websites":[],"photo":null,"profile_url":"https://ko.instaget.online/people/750e68b67868258c3755dc72","provenance":{"catalog":"wikidata_wikipedia","fetched_at":"2026-08-29T06:57:45Z","social_archives_included":false,"source_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309903"},"public_hash":"750e68b67868258c3755dc72","schema_version":"1.1","socials":{},"tags":[{"key":"category:arts-and-culture","label":"Arts and culture","type":"category"},{"key":"category:politics-and-public-service","label":"Politics and public service","type":"category"},{"key":"occupation:writer","label":"writer","type":"occupation"},{"key":"occupation:novelist","label":"novelist","type":"occupation"},{"key":"occupation:autobiographer","label":"autobiographer","type":"occupation"},{"key":"occupation:politician","label":"politician","type":"occupation"},{"key":"occupation:art collector","label":"art collector","type":"occupation"},{"key":"country:london","label":"London","type":"country"},{"key":"citizenship:kingdom of great britain","label":"Kingdom of Great Britain","type":"citizenship"}],"wikidata_id":"Q309903","wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309903","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Walpole"}