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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1770
Events from the year 1770 in Great Britain .
Incumbents
Frederick North, Lord North
Events
Undated
Publications
Births
4 January –
Edward Banks , building contractor (died 1835)
25 January –
Francis Burdett , politician (died 1844)
2 February –
George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon , nobleman, soldier and politician (died 1836)
11 March –
William Huskisson , Member of Parliament (died 1830)
29 March –
Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham , mistress of
George IV (died 1861)
7 April –
William Wordsworth , poet (died 1850)
11 April –
George Canning ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1827)
30 April –
David Thompson , British–Canadian explorer (died 1857)
7 June –
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool ,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1828)
18 October –
Thomas Phillips , painter (died 1845)
5 November –
Sarah Guppy , inventor (died 1852)
9 December (bapt.) –
James Hogg , Scottish poet and novelist (died 1835)
13 December –
John Clarke Whitfield , organist and composer (died 1836)
Deaths
c. January –
William Falconer , Scottish poet and marine dictionary compiler (lost at sea) (born 1732)
20 January –
Charles Yorke , Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1722)
23 June –
Mark Akenside , poet and physician (born 1721)
27 July –
Robert Dinwiddie , British colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1693)
24 August –
Thomas Chatterton , poet (suicide) (born 1752)
30 September –
Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham , politician and diplomat (born c. 1695)
30 September –
George Whitefield , Methodist leader (born 1714)
18 October –
John Manners, Marquess of Granby , soldier (born 1721)
1 November –
Alexander Cruden , Biblical scholar (born 1699 in Scotland)
9 November –
John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll , politician (born c. 1693)
13 November –
George Grenville ,
Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1712)
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See also
References
Further reading