The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737

LC control no.nr2001030636
Personal name headingWalpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Shorter, Catherine, 1681 or 1682-1737
Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 2-1737
Walpole, Lady (Catherine), 1681 or 1682-1737
Birth date[1681,1682]
Death date1737
Special noteTHIS 1XX FIELD CANNOT BE USED UNDER RDA UNTIL THIS RECORD HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND/OR UPDATED
Found inThe rival wives answer'd, or, Skirra to Clarissa, 1738 (name not given)
DNB: p. 637 under "Walpole, Sir Robert, first Earl of Orford" (Catherine Shorter; first wife of Sir Robert Walpole, later Earl of Orford; m. 30 July 1700; sometimes mistakenly thought to be the daughter of Sir John Shorter, lord mayor of London, but actually the daughter of John Shorter of Bybrook in Kent, a Baltic timber merchant and a son of the lord mayor) p. 662 (d. 20 Aug. 1737, at Chelsea)
Cockayne's Complete peerage: under Orford (Catherine, d. 20 Aug. 1737, age 55)
CtY-BR files (hdg: Walpole, Catherine Shorter, Lady, 1682?-1737; usage: Lady Walpole)
Not found inBGMI (WWW), 31 July 2001; World biog. index (WWW), 31 July 2001; Brittanica online (WWW), 31 July 2001