Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
Classic Audiobook Collection
00:00
The Pros and Cons of Horis Wallpole
Wallpole was tainted with abusing his patronage by granting places and reversions of places to his relatives. When his son horis was little more than a child he was made clerk of the s treats and controller of the pipe at the age of eighteen or nineteen. He became inspector of customs on resigning that post a year later he was made usher of the exchequer then worth nine hundred pounds a year. The bulk of the proceeds of this patent he devised to his son Horis in 1721 the minister made his eldest son clerk of the pels with three thousand a year. In 1739 he gave him the gigantic price of auditor of the Exchequer with a salary of seven thousand
Play episode from 04:16:11
Transcript
