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SIR SPENCER WALPOLE (1839-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 290 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:SPENCER See also:WALPOLE (1839-1907)  , See also:English historian and See also:civil servant, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:February 1839 . He came of the younger See also:branch of the See also:family of the famous Whig See also:prime See also:minister, being descended from his See also:brother, the 1st See also:lord See also:Walpole of Wolterton . He was the son of the latter's See also:great-See also:grandson, the Right Hon . See also:Spencer Horatio Walpole (1807-1898), thrice See also:home secretary under Lord See also:Derby, and through his See also:mother was grandson of Spencer See also:Perceval, the Tory prime minister who was murdered in the See also:House of See also:Commons . He was educated at See also:Eton, and from 1858 to 1867 was a clerk in the See also:War See also:Office, then be-coming an inspector of See also:fisheries . In 1882 he was made See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of the Isle of See also:Man, and from 1893 to 1899 he was secretary to the See also:Post Office . In 1898 he was created K.C.B . Although well known as a most efficient public servant, and in private See also:life as the most amiable of men, See also:Sir Spencer Walpole's real See also:title to remembrance is as an historian . His family connexions gave him a natural See also:bent to the study of public affairs, and their mingling of Whig and Tory in politics contributed, no doubt, to that quality of judicious See also:balance—inclining, however,to the Whig or moderate Liberal See also:side—which, together with his sanity and accuracy, is so characteristic of his writings . His See also:principal See also:work, the See also:History of See also:England from 1815 (1878-1886), in six volumes, was carried down to 1858, and was continued in his History of Twenty-Five Years (1904) . Among his other publications come his lives of Spencer Perceval (1894) and Lord See also:John See also:Russell (1889), and a See also:volume of valuable Studies in See also:Biography (1906); and he wrote the See also:section of the See also:article ENGLISH HISTORY, dealing in detail with the reign of See also:Queen See also:Victoria, for the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica . He died on the 7th of See also:July 1907 .

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