mathematician (died 1841) 24 February – Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (died 1850) 16 March – Captain Matthew Flinders, explorer (died 1814) 12 August – Robert Southey, poet and biographer (died 1843) Edward Baines, newspaper proprietor and politician (died 1848) Arthur Thistlewood, conspirator (executed 1820) Highflyer, racehorse (died 1793) Deaths 1 July – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, statesman (born 1705) 14 July – James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, field marshal (born 1682) 22 November – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, general and statesman (suicide, born 1725) 25 November – Henry Baker, naturalist (born 1698) References Years in Great Britain