Neustadt Protocol with France, but fails to inform his British government until after his return from Germany. 19 October – Actor David Garrick makes his London stage debut, in the title role of Shakespeare's Richard III, having made his professional debut at Ipswich in Oroonoko earlier in the year. 11 December: 11 a.m. – A "fire-ball" and explosion, perhaps resulting from a meteor, is heard over southern England. Henry Hoare begins to lay out the landscape gardens at Stourhead, Wiltshire. Publications April – Henry Fielding's anonymous An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews satirising Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela. Isaac Watts' The Improvement of the Mind. Births 6 January – Sarah Trimmer, née Kirby, writer for children (died 1810) 27 January – Hester Thrale, née Salusbury, diarist (died 1821) 17 March – William Withering, physician (died 1799) c. April/May? – Henry Cort, ironmaster (died 1800) 11 September – Arthur Young, agriculturist and writer on social and political matters (died 1820) Deaths 21 February – Jethro Tull, agriculturist (born 1674) 10 April – Celia Fiennes, travel writer (born 1662) 24 May – Lord Augustus FitzRoy, Royal Navy officer (born 1716) August – David Owen, Welsh harpist (born 1712) 31 December – Andrew Archer, politician (born 1659) References Years in Great Britain