1730 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1730 in Great Britain.

1730 in Great Britain:
Other years
1728 | 1729 | 1730 | 1731 | 1732
Countries of the United Kingdom
Scotland
Sport
1730 English cricket season

Incumbents
  • Monarch – George II
  • Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)[1]

Events
  • 3 February – The Daily Advertiser is founded in London as the first newspaper funded by advertising.[2]
  • 12 March – John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.[3]
  • 15 May – Walpole–Townshend ministry dissolved when Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend resigns as Secretary of State for the Northern Department after a dispute with Robert Walpole.[2]

Undated
  • The population of the UK exceeds 10 million for the first time.[4]
  • Reputedly the last originally native roe deer in England is killed at Hexham, Northumberland.[5]

Births
  • 9 January – John Scott of Amwell, Quaker poet and landscape gardener (died 1783)
  • 27 March – Thomas Tyrwhitt, classical scholar and critic (died 1786)
  • 16 April – Henry Clinton, general (died 1795)
  • 26 April – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1805)
  • 13 May – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (died 1782)[6]
  • 12 July – Josiah Wedgwood, pottery manufacturer and abolitionist (died 1795)
  • 1 August – Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, Anglican Bishop of Derry, art collector and philanthropist (died 1803)
  • 7 September – Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer (died 1765)
  • 1 November – George Horne, bishop (died 1792)
  • 14 December – James Bruce, Scottish explorer of the Nile (died 1794)
  • 30 December – William Hamilton, diplomat and antiquary (died 1803)
  • date unknown – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Scottish peer and colonial governor in the Americas (died 1809)

Deaths
  • 1 January – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, politician (born 1647)
  • 13 May – Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet, landowner and politician (born 1658)
  • 30 May – Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II (born 1648)
  • 19 June – Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, judge and politician (born 1658)
  • 9 September – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, courtier (born 1662)
  • 27 September – Laurence Eusden, poet laureate (born 1688)
  • 23 October – Anne Oldfield, actress (born 1683)

See also
  • 1730 in Wales

References
  1. "History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  3. Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
  4. "Time Series Chart of UK Public Spending". ukpublicspending.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  5. Langley, P. J. W.; Yalden, D. W. (1977). "The decline of the rarer carnivores in Great Britain during the nineteenth century". Mammal Review. 7 (3–4): 113. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.1977.tb00363.x.
  6. "History of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
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