Walpole

Walpole, SIR SPENCER, secretary to the Post-office 1893-99, and since 1898 K.C.B., is son of the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, Home Secretary under Lord Derby (died 1898), and was born 6th February 1839, and educated at Eton. He had a post in the War Office, was made inspector of fisheries in 1867, and in 1882 lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Man. He has written lives of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval (his grandfather, 1873) and Lord John Russell (1889); two volumes in the 'English Citizen' series; and the valuable History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815 (5 vols. 1878-86). He is LL.D. of Edinburgh.