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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1764
Events from the year
1764 in
Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Publications
Births
- Early –
James Smithson,
mineralogist, chemist and
benefactor (died
1829)
- February –
George Duff, Scottish naval officer (died
1805)
- 13 March –
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died
1845)
- 1 April –
Eclipse, racehorse (died
1789)
- 3 April –
John Abernethy, surgeon (died
1831)
- 29 April –
Ann Hatton, née Kemble, novelist (died
1838)
- 2 May –
Robert Hall, Baptist minister (died 1831)
- 4 May –
Joseph Carpue, surgeon (died
1846)
- 5 May –
Robert Craufurd,
Scottish general (killed at
Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812))
- 25 May –
John Mason Good, writer (died
1827)
- 19 June –
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, author and statesman (died
1848)
- 21 June –
Sidney Smith, admiral (died
1840)
- 5 July –
Daniel Mendoza, boxer (died
1836)
- 9 July –
Ann Radcliffe, née Ward, novelist (died
1823)
- 17 September –
John Goodricke,
astronomer (died
1786)
- 25 September –
Fletcher Christian, sailor and mutineer (died 1793 in
Pitcairn Islands)
- October –
William Symington, Scottish mechanical engineer and steamboat pioneer (died
1831)
- 3 December –
Mary Lamb, writer and matricide (died
1847)
- Approximate date –
Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer of northern Canada (died
1820)
Deaths
- 6 March –
Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke,
Lord Chancellor (born
1690)
- 17 March
- 15 April –
John Immyns, attorney and lutenist (born c.
1700)
- 29 June –
Ralph Allen, businessman and politician (born
1693)
- 7 July –
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, politician (born
1683)
- 2 September –
Nathaniel Bliss,
Astronomer Royal (born
1700)
- 23 September –
Robert Dodsley, writer (born
1703)
- 2 October –
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister (born
1720)
- 26 October –
William Hogarth, painter and satirist (born
1697)
- 4 November –
Charles Churchill, poet and satirist (born
1732)
See also
References