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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1721
1721 in Great Britain:
Other years
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Events from the year
1721 in
Great Britain .
Incumbents
Walpole
Events
Undated
Publications
Births
2 January –
John Manners, Marquess of Granby (died
1770 )
19 March –
Tobias Smollett , physician and author (died
1771 )
15 April –
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland , military leader (died
1765 )
14 July –
John Douglas , Anglican bishop and man of letters (died
1807 )
4 August –
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford , politician (died
1803 )
31 August –
George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol , statesman (died
1775 )
9 November –
Mark Akenside , poet and physician (died
1770 )
6 December –
James Elphinston , philologist (died
1809 )
Deaths
5 February –
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope , statesman and soldier (born c.
1673 )
16 February –
James Craggs the Younger , politician (born
1686 )
24 February –
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby , statesman and poet (born
1648 )
16 March –
James Craggs the Elder , politician (born
1657 )
28 April –
Mary Read , pirate, in Jamaica (born
1685 )
11 June –
Sir Anthony Deane , naval architect and politician (born
1633 )
8 July –
Elihu Yale , East India merchant and educationist (born 1649 in Massachusetts)
3 August –
Grinling Gibbons , sculptor (born 1648 in Rotterdam)
18 September –
Matthew Prior , poet and diplomat (born
1664 )
11 October –
Edward Colston , merchant and philanthropist (born
1636 )
13 December –
Alexander Selkirk , sailor (born
1676 in Scotland )
17 December –
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough , statesman (born
1650 )
See also
References