How Does Walpole Influence The Whig Government

Robert Walpole’s Whig Supremacy Under Robert Walpole’s leadership, Britain achieved political stability for the first time in more than three decades. When Walpole was brought into office in 1721 by King George I after the Earl Stanhope died and the Earl of Sunderland resigned, he made great efforts to unite and bring more of the Whig party into the government. His goal was to bring peace to the nation. In the period before Walpole’s Whig Supremacy, King George I wanted to bring more of the Whig party into government positions and so removed exiting members of the Tory party from the government. This unsurprisingly led to backlash from the Tories and Jacobite plotters who were rumored to be negotiating with Tory leaders. Walpole was earlier removed from office by the Tories, but came back to office during this time. …show more content…
In September of 1715, John Erskine, the Earl of Mar, proclaimed James III & VIII (the Old Pretender) the rightful King of England and Scotland and led a Jacobite rebellion. The rebellion failed and The Whigs and the Hanoverian monarchy of George I then viewed Tories as irredeemable Jacobites who must be prevented from attaining power at all costs. And so King George I put four Whig ministers in the government include two radicals, the Earl of Sunderland and the Earl Stanhope, and two moderates, Lord Townshend and Robert Walpole. But conflicts over policy between the radical Whigs and moderate Whigs began. The moderates, Lord Townshend and Robert Walpole, leave office and let the radicals, the Earl of Sunderland and the Earl Stanhope, lead from 1717 to