After his resignation over a rigged election in Chippenham, this man was replaced in his most famous post by Spencer Compton, the Earl of Wilmington.
This man introduced the first sinking fund in his country to help recover from the South Sea Bubble, and he initially gained notoriety by exposing the plot of Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester. After his resignation over a rigged election in Chippenham, this man was replaced in his most famous post by Spencer Compton, the Earl of Wilmington. This leader of the nascent Whigs was the father of the man who wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. For 10 points, name this eighteenth- century politician, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
This man introduced the first sinking fund in his country to help recover from the South Sea Bubble, and he initially gained notoriety by exposing the plot of Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester.
Robert {Walpole} [or First Earl of {Orford}; prompt on {Walpole}]