Wordsworth, poet (died 1850) 11 April – George Canning, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1827) 30 April – David Thompson, British–Canadian explorer (died 1857) 7 June – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1828) 5 November – Sarah Guppy, inventor (died 1852) 9 December (bapt.) – James Hogg, Scottish poet and novelist (died 1835) 13 December – John Clarke Whitfield, organist and composer (died 1836) Deaths c. January – William Falconer, Scottish poet and marine dictionary compiler (lost at sea) (born 1732) 20 January – Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1722) 23 June – Mark Akenside, poet and physician (born 1721) 27 July – Robert Dinwiddie, British colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1693) 24 August – Thomas Chatterton, poet (suicide) (born 1752) 30 September – Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, politician and diplomat (born c. 1695) 30 September – George Whitefield, Methodist leader (born 1714) 18 October – John Manners, Marquess of Granby, soldier (born 1721) 1 November – Alexander Cruden, Biblical scholar (born 1699 in Scotland) 9 November – John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, politician (born c. 1693) 13 November – George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1712) References Further reading Years in Great Britain