1732 in Great Britain

1732 in Great Britain:

Other years

1730 | 1731 | 1732 | 1733 | 1734

Countries of the United Kingdom

Scotland

Sport

1732 English cricket season

Events from the year 1732 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Regent – Caroline, Queen Consort (starting 7 June, until 26 September) ^[1]
• Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig) ^[2]

Events

• 14 February – first performance of Henry Fielding's comedy The Modern Husband , at the Royal Theatre on Drury Lane in London.
• 3 March – Captain Charles Gough rediscovers Gough Island in the South Atlantic. ^{[3] [4]}
• 30 March – MPs John Birch and Denis Bond are expelled from the House of Commons after using their positions on the Commission for Forfeited Lands to make fraudulent sales.
• April–May – first performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Esther , in London. ^[5]
• 9 June – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. ^[6]
• 7 December – the original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (predecessor of the Royal Opera House) is opened by John Rich. ^[7]

Undated

• Act provides that any man after 24 June 1733 charged on oath with being the father of an illegitimate child should be imprisoned until he provides a financial bond to indemnify the parish from liability for it under the Poor Law. ^[8]
• Secession Church formed in Scotland. ^[9]
• Trinity House moors the world's first lightship at the Nore in the Thames Estuary. ^[10]

Births

• February – Charles Churchill, satirist and poet (died 1764)
• 19 February – Richard Cumberland, dramatist (died 1811)
• April – George Colman the Elder, dramatist and essayist (died 1794)
• 13 April – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (died 1792) ^[11]
• 15 August – Maria Coventry, Countess of Coventry, society beauty (died 1760)
• 6 October – Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal (died 1811)
• 6 December – Warren Hastings, colonial administrator (died 1818)
• 23 December – Richard Arkwright, inventor (died 1792)

Deaths

• 12 January – John Horsley, archaeologist (born c. 1685)
• 22 January – Louis de Sabran, theologian (born 1652)
• 6 February – Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wealthy Scottish peeress (born 1651)
• 7 February – William Hiseland, soldier, reputed supercentenarian (born 1620)
• 22 February – Francis Atterbury, bishop and man of letters (born 1663)
• 20 May – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (born 1676)
• 30 May – John King, churchman (born 1652)
• 1 June – Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland (born 1700)
• 16 July – Woodes Rogers, privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (born c. 1679)
• 6 October – George Duckett, politician (born 1684)
• 26 November – Charles Sergison, politician (born 1655)
• 4 December – John Gay, poet and dramatist (born 1685)

See also

• 1732 in Wales

References

1. Pryde, E. B., ed. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 46. ISBN   978-0-521-56350-5.
2. "History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
3. Wright, Gabriel (1804). A new nautical directory for the East-India and China navigation. W. Gilbert. p. 394. OCLC   680511332.
4. Heaney, J. B.; Holdgate, M. W. (1957). "The Gough Island Scientific Survey". The Geographical Journal . 123: 20–31. doi:10.2307/1790719. JSTOR   1790718.
5. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN   0-304-35730-8.
6. Bennett, William J.; Cribb, John T. E. (2008). The American Patriot's Almanac. Thomas Nelson Inc. p. 208. ISBN   978-1-59555-267-9.
7. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN   0-14-102715-0.
8. "Bastardy or Illegitimacy in England". Price Genealogy. July 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
9. Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. London: Chapman and Hall.
10. "Trinity House – Lightvessels". PortCities London. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
11. "History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2023.