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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1745
Events from the year 1745 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Publications
Births
- 23 January –
William Jessop, civil engineer (died
1814)
- February –
Samuel Hearne, explorer, fur-trader, author and naturalist (died
1792)
- 2 February
- 14 February –
Lady Sarah Lennox, courtier (died
1826)
- 20 February –
Henry James Pye, poet laureate (died
1813)
- 4 March –
Charles Dibdin, composer (died
1814)
- 12 May –
William Creech, Scottish bookseller and
Lord Provost of Edinburgh (died
1815)
- 13 July –
Robert Calder, admiral (died
1818)
- 20 July –
Henry Holland, architect (died
1806)
- 20 or 21 August –
Francis Asbury, bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church (died
1816 in the United States)
- 17 October –
William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, judge and jurist (died
1836)
- 7 November –
Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, member of the royal family (died
1793)
- 10 December –
Thomas Holcroft, writer (died
1809)
Deaths
- 26 February –
Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (born 1707)
- 18 March –
Robert Walpole, first
Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1676)
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- 28 May –
Jonathan Richardson, portrait painter, writer on art and collector (born 1667)
- 30 September –
Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet, Scottish politician (born 1686)
- 19 October –
Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist (born 1667)
- 16 November –
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, exiled Irish-born statesman and soldier (born 1665)
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John Freame, banker (born 1669)
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References