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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1754
Events from the year
1754 in
Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Births
- 6 February –
Andrew Fuller, Particular Baptist minister, promoter of missionary work (died
1815)
- 16 June –
Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr, English politician and co-founder of the Marylebone Cricket Club (died
1820)
- 11 July –
Thomas Bowdler, physician (died
1825)
- 21 August –
William Murdoch, inventor (died
1839)
- 7 September –
Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer, wife of
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (died
1792)
- 9 September –
William Bligh, sailor (died
1817)
- 24 December –
George Crabbe, poet (died
1832)
Deaths
- 10 January –
Edward Cave, editor and publisher (born
1691)
- 16 February –
Richard Mead, physician (born
1673)
- 27 February –
John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel, English politician (born
1690)
- 6 March –
Henry Pelham,
Prime Minister (born
1696)
- 2 April –
Thomas Carte, historian (born
1686)
- 23 May –
John Wood, the Elder, architect (born
1704)
- 2 June –
Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish Secessionist minister (born
1680)
- 7 July –
Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (born
1699)
- 23 August –
William Cleghorn, Scottish philosopher (born
1718)
- 29 September –
William Keen, first resident judicial officer in the British colony of Newfoundland (born c. 1680)
- 8 October –
Henry Fielding, novelist (born
1707)
See also
References