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Robert Walpole
Sir Robert Walpole was a British Whig statesman who, as First Lord of the Treasury from 1721 to 1742, is regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. Under George I and George II he kept peace abroad, restored public finances after the South Sea Bubble and managed Parliament through patronage. He was created Earl of Orford on his fall.
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