Talk:Robert Walpole (colonel)

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A fact from Robert Walpole (colonel) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 October 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Robert Walpole, father of England's first Prime Minister, holds the record for the longest overdue library book at 288 years?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/October.

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While I have no way to verify this data directly, according to the Family Search website (http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/frameset_search.asp) on Galfridus Walpole (born 25 March 1684), he did not die as an infant, but lived until 1726, being buried at Houghton Hall on the 13th of August that year. He appears to have married one Cornelia Farrer Hays about 1709 and had at least 3 children. Perhaps this could be researched a little closer?Ptilinopus (talk) 13:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]