The Importance of Robert Walpole's Entry Into Parliament

Mr. Walpole was at once, January 1701, elected for the first of them,. rendered vacant by his father's disease. He retained the seat until the death of King William. In 1702, on the accession of Queen Anne, he was returned for Lynn Regis. He continued to sit for the same burrow without interruption until his fall from power forty years later. The moment of Walpole's entrance upon parliamentary life was one of critical importance in national history.

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