Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford

OK, lesson learned. I just went out and found a cute little quote on nonsense that I threw in my last blog. I had never heard of the guy, but I liked the quote. Well tonight Mocha-momma went out and did a search to see who this guy was. She knew that the recipient of this guy's letters---Horace Mann, was an early education pioneer. It turnes out the dude was the son of a British Prime Minister, and a homosexual architect who had an affair with some major poet of the time. Sounds like he had an interesting life. I usually like to find quotes from guys like Abe Lincoln, Will Rogers, Vince Lombardi, Thomas Edison. I'll have to start checking on these obscure guys and see who the heck they are.

Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, more commonly known as Horace Walpole, (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), was a politician, writer, architectural innovator and namesake of his cousin Horatio Nelson.
He was born in London, the youngest son of British Prime Minister Robert Walpole. He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. His homosexuality revealed itself early, and he is believed to have had affairs with the poet Thomas Gray, and with the 9th Earl of Lincoln (later the 2nd Duke of Newcastle). Gray accompanied Walpole on the Grand Tour, but they quarreled, and Walpole returned to England in 1741 and entered parliament. He was never politically ambitious, but remained an MP even after the death of his father in 1745 left him a man of independent means. (Wikipedia)