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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (2 April 1730 5 December 1791) was a British peer. Lord Orford was the eldest son of the 2nd Earl of Orford and his wife Margaret Rolle. Between 1751 and 1791 he served as High Steward of King's Lynn and Yarmouth. On 31 March 1751 he succeeded his father as Earl of Orford. He served as a Lord of the Bedchamber to King George II until the latter's death, and then to King George III until 1782. He was Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk from 1757 until his own death. Walpole, in 1759, became Colonel of the Norfolk Militia…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (2 April 1730 5 December 1791) was a British peer. Lord Orford was the eldest son of the 2nd Earl of Orford and his wife Margaret Rolle. Between 1751 and 1791 he served as High Steward of King's Lynn and Yarmouth. On 31 March 1751 he succeeded his father as Earl of Orford. He served as a Lord of the Bedchamber to King George II until the latter's death, and then to King George III until 1782. He was Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk from 1757 until his own death. Walpole, in 1759, became Colonel of the Norfolk Militia until his death. He then became the sixteenth Baron Clinton in 1781 at the death of his mother. George Walpole never married and at his death all of his titles, except the title of Baron Clinton, were passed to his uncle Horace Walpole.