17 September – John Hamilton Mortimer, painter (died 1779) 29 October – James Boswell, author (died 1795) 24 November – John Bacon, sculptor (died 1799) c. December – Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang (died 1794) date unknown Margaret Bingham, Countess of Lucan, portrait painter and writer (died 1814) Thomas White, cricketer (died 1831) Christopher Wyvill, cleric, landowner and political reformer (died 1822) William Yalden, cricketer (died 1824) Deaths 29 January – Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough, military officer and politician, suicide (born 1686) 19 February – Hester Pinney, businesswoman (born 1658) 23 April – Thomas Tickell, writer (born 1685) 6 June – Alexander Spotswood, governor of Virginia Colony (born 1676) 17 June – Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, politician (born 1687) 20 December – Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, military officer and statesman (born 1675) 23 December – Daniel Waterland, English theologian (born 1683) References Years in Great Britain