1754 in Great Britain

1754 in Great Britain:

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Sport

1754 English cricket season

Events from the year 1754 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George II
• Prime Minister - Henry Pelham, Whig (to 6 March), Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Whig

Events

• 28 January - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
• 6 March - Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne becomes Prime Minister following the death of his brother Henry Pelham.^[1]
• May - General election increases the Whig Party's majority.^[2]

Undated

• The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is founded in Scotland, and formally writes down the rules of golf for the first time.^[1]

Publications

• Jane Collier and Sarah Fielding's The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable
• David Hume's The History of Great Britain begins publication.^[1]
• Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director.^[3]
• Posthumous publication of Isaac Newton's dissertation An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture.

Births

• 11 July - Thomas Bowdler, physician (died 1825)
• 16 June - Peter Burrell, 1st Baron Gwydyr, English politician and co-founder of MCC (died 1820)
• 21 August - William Murdoch, inventor (died 1839)
• 7 September - Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer, wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (died 1792)
• 9 September - William Bligh, sailor (died 1817)
• 24 December - George Crabbe, poet (died 1832)

Deaths

• 10 January - Edward Cave, editor and publisher (born 1691)
• 16 February - Richard Mead, physician (born 1673)
• 27 February - John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel, English politician (born 1690)
• 6 March - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister (born 1696)
• 2 April - Thomas Carte, historian (born 1686)
• 23 May - John Wood, the Elder, architect (born 1704)
• 2 June - Ebenezer Erskine, religious dissenter (born 1680)
• 7 July - Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (born 1699)
• August - William Cleghorn, Scottish philosopher (born 1718)
• 29 September - William Keen, first resident judicial officer in the British colony of Newfoundland (born c. 1680)
• 8 October - Henry Fielding, novelist (born 1707)

References

See also