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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1792
Events from the year 1792 in Great Britain .
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Publications
Births
10 February –
Frederick Marryat , author (died 1848)
19 February –
Roderick Murchison , geologist (died 1871)
7 March –
John Herschel , mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
12 April –
John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (died 1840)
25 April –
John Keble , churchman and poet (died 1866)
17 May –
Anne Isabella Milbanke , wife of
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (died 1860)
16 June –
John Linnell , painter (died 1882)
7 July –
William Henry Smith , businessman (died 1865)
4 August –
Percy Bysshe Shelley , poet (died 1822)
13 August –
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen , queen of
William IV (died 1849)
18 August –
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell ,
Prime Minister (died 1878)
11 November –
Mary Anne Disraeli , wife of
Benjamin Disraeli (died 1872)
Deaths
27 January –
George Horne , bishop (born 1730)
8 February –
Hannah Snell , soldier (born 1723)
23 February – Sir
Joshua Reynolds , painter (born 1723)
3 March –
Robert Adam , architect (born 1728)
10 March –
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ,
Prime Minister (born 1713)
[9]
3 April –
George Pocock , admiral (born 1706)
30 April –
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , statesman,
First Lord of the Admiralty and rake (born 1718)
24 May –
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney , naval officer (born 1719)
4 June –
John Burgoyne , general (born 1723)
18 July –
John Paul Jones , sailor and the United States's first well-known naval fighter in the
American Revolution (born 1747)
3 August –
Richard Arkwright , inventor (born 1732)
5 August –
Frederick North, Lord North ,
Prime Minister (born 1732)
[10]
28 October –
John Smeaton , civil engineer (born 1724)
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References