The last illnesses of Robert and Horace Walpole.

The illnesses and death of Robert Walpole.

ROBERT WALPOLE, later Earl of Orford, was born in 1676t in East Anglia, where urinary stone was common, and died in 1745 with this condition. The controversy about his death has been described by Jarvis,' who was particularly concerned with the pamphlet war, involving physicians, surgeons, and literary men, which followed it. Viseltear2 has more recently written an account of Walpole's last ill...

Designing for (un)serendipity: computing and chance

The tale of a lame, one-eyed, toothless camel 1 may not, at first glance, seem an auspicious start for ground-breaking discoveries of penicillin, X-rays and chocolate chip cookies. However, when Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in 1754, based on the tale of ‘The Three Princes of Serendip’ and the aforementioned camel, he was giving name to the accidental sagacity (i.e. accidental wisd...

̳our Gothic Bard‘: Shakespeare and Appropriation

In recent years, Gothic literary studies have increasingly acknowledged the role played by Shakespeare in authorial acts of appropriation. Such acknowledgement is most prominently stated in Gothic Shakespeares (eds. Drakakis and Townshend, 2008) and Shakespearean Gothic (eds. Desmet and Williams, 2009), both of which base their analyses of the Shakespeare-Gothic intersection on the premise that...

The Green Paper. An Hypothesis to Explain the Delay in Its Appearance

In the DHSS, the Permanent Secretary, Sir Horace Appleby (brother of the better known Sir Humphrey) and Nigel (The Minister's Private Secretary) await the arrival of the new Minister of Health at his first appearance in the Department offices. Sir Horace: All ready to meet your new Minister, Nigel? Nigel: Yes, Sir Horace; but they do seem to change rather frequently and this one seems to be a v...

Optically Digital Communication and Processing at the Quantum Limit