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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1724
1724 in Great Britain:
Other years
Sport
Events from the year
1724 in
Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
Blenheim Palace completed.
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 )
[5]
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 )
[6]
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
References