an inspector of fisheries. In 1867 he married Marion Jane Murray; they had one son and one daughter. In 1882 he was made lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Man, and from 1893 to 1899 he was secretary to the Post Office. In 1898 he was knighted.

A most efficient public servant and in private life well-conversed, Walpole became a successfully published historian. His family connections gave him a natural affinity