English: Church of St Martin of Tours, Houghton, Norfolk - Ledger stone of Colonel Robert Walpole (1650 - 18 November 1700) of Houghton Hall (eldest son of Sir Edward Walpole (1621-1668), Knight of the Bath, of Houghton, by his wife Susan Crane, a daughter of Sir w:Robert Crane, 1st Baronet of Chilton, Suffolk) who married Mary Burwell, daughter and heiress of Sir Geoffrey Burwell of Rougham, Suffolk (Cokayne, G. E.; H. A. Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden, eds. (1945). The Complete Peerage, or a history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times (Oakham to Richmond). 10 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, p.81). He died in his 50th year. His eldest surviving son was w:Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford.

Inscription

Of his ten sons and seven daughters the following are surviving: Robert, Horace and Walter, Mary, Dorothy and Susan.

Heraldry

Arms of Walpole impaling Burwell: Or, a chevron ermine between three bur (oak) leaves erect vert/proper (Burwell) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.151 "Burwell of Woodbridge, Suffolk"). (Quercus macrocarpa, the bur oak, commonly spelled burr oak, is a species of oak tree native to eastern North America). The arms are similar to those of the Lent family Vert, a chevron ermine between three leaves argent (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.453, and Burke, 1884, p.601)