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As we know, Robert Walpole became the first recognized Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1721, I think as a result of having to deal with some sort of financial crisis, and remained in that post until the poor handling of the War of Jenkins' Ear brought upon his downfall.
Now, my question is...who could have become the first Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1721, or some other time, had Walpole not risen politically or had he died just before the conditions that propelled him to the Premiership?
Could the Lord Halifax had become Prime Minister in the 1710s? Or the Earl Stanhope had it not been for the South Sea Bubble crisis?
I'm just randomly guessing, on one hand we can speculate about who could take Walpole's place in 1821 and on the other speculate about who before him could have become Prime Minister.