1724 in Great Britain explained
Events from the year
1724 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Births
- 24 January – Frances Brooke, writer (died 1789)
- 28 February – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, field marshal (died 1807)
- 19 May – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, admiral and politician (died 1779)
- 3 June – John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (died 1773)
- 8 June – John Smeaton, civil engineer (died 1792)
- 25 August – George Stubbs, painter (died 1806)
- 3 September – Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, soldier and Governor of Quebec (died 1808)
- 31 October – Christopher Anstey, writer (died 1805)[4]
- 12 December – Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, admiral (died 1816)
- 25 December – John Michell, scientist and geologist (died 1793)
Deaths
- 1 January – Charles Gildon, critic and dramatist (born c. 1665)
- 12 February – Elkanah Settle, writer (born 1648)
- 21 May – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, statesman (born 1661)
- 15 June – Henry Sacheverell, churchman and politician (born 1674)
- 29 October – William Wollaston, philosophical writer (born 1659)[5]
- 11 November – Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), highwayman (executed) (born 1700)
- 16 November – Jack Sheppard, criminal (executed) (born 1702)
- 29 November – Laurence Braddon, writer and politician (year of birth not known)
- 27 December – Thomas Guy, philanthropist (born 1644)
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK . www.gov.uk . 12 June 2023 . en.
- Book: The Hutchinson Factfinder . Helicon . 1999 . 1-85986-000-1 .
- Book: Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. registration. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 0-304-35730-8.
- 579. Robert James. Merrett. Anstey, Christopher.
- 29841. B. W.. Young. Wollaston, William.