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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1761
Events from the year
1761 in
Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Publications
James Macpherson 's supposed translation Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by
Ossian , the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language .
[11]
Frances Sheridan 's novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Biddulph .
[12]
Births
Deaths
4 January –
Stephen Hales , physiologist, chemist, and inventor (born
1677 )
10 January –
Edward Boscawen , admiral (born
1711 )
9 April –
William Law , minister (born
1686 )
15 April –
Archibald Campbell, Duke of Argyll , politician (born
1682 )
17 April
14 May –
Thomas Simpson , mathematician (born
1710 )
4 July –
Samuel Richardson , writer (born
1689 )
30 November –
John Dollond , optician (born
1706 )
23 December –
Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell , Jacobite spy (born c.
1725 )
See also
References
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"History of Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st Duke of Newcastle - GOV.UK" . www.gov.uk . Retrieved 19 June 2023 .
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b
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d Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
320–321 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^ Smith, D. W. (January 1980).
"The Hexham Riot" .
Northumberland and Durham Family History Society Journal . 5 (2).
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a
b
c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 222–224.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
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"Historical Chronicle, Oct. 1761" . Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle . 31 : 477. October 1761.
OCLC
173346685 .
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006.
ISBN
0-14-102715-0 .
^ Gale, W. K. V. (1952). Boulton, Watt and the Soho Undertakings . City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
^ Harris, John; de Bellaigue, Geoffrey; Millar, Oliver (1968). Buckingham Palace . London: Nelson. p. 24.
ISBN
0-17-141011-4 .
^ Drury, Jennifer (2012-08-24).
"North Street – The Countess of Huntingdon's Church" . Brighton and Hove . Retrieved 2016-07-26 .
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Lobel, Mary D. , ed. (1957).
Victoria County History : A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5: Bullingdon Hundred . Oxford University Press. pp. 234–249.
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Magnusson, Magnus (2007) [2006]. Fakers, Forgers & Phoneys . Edinburgh: Mainstream. p. 334.
ISBN
978-1-84596-210-4 .
^
Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.