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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1787
Events from the year
1787 in
Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Births
- 7 January –
Patrick Nasmyth, Scottish landscape painter (died 1831)
- 10 February –
William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man (died 1820)
- 17 February –
George Mogridge (Old Humphrey), miscellaneous writer and poet (died 1854)
- 10 March –
William Etty, painter, especially of nudes (died 1849)
- 28 March –
Claudius Rich, archaeologist and anthropologist (died 1821)
- 7 June –
William Conybeare, geologist (died 1857)
- 28 June –
Harry Smith, military commander (died 1860)
- 24 July –
William Ward, cricketer (died 1849)
- 13 September –
John Adamson, antiquary and expert on Portuguese (died 1855)
- 13 October –
William Brockedon, painter (died 1854)
- 4 November –
Edmund Kean, actor (died 1833)
- 21 November –
Bryan Procter (Barry Cornwall), poet (died 1874)
- 22 November –
Copley Fielding, watercolour landscape painter (died 1855)
- 16 December –
Mary Russell Mitford, novelist and dramatist (died 1855)
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Ignatius Bonomi, architect (died 1870)
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John Dobson, architect (died 1865)
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Harriet Gouldsmith, landscape painter and etcher (died 1863)
- Approximate date –
Ikey Solomon, receiver of stolen goods (died 1850 in Australia)
Deaths
See also
References