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Events from the year
1721
in
Great Britain
.
Incumbents
Monarch
–
George I
Prime Minister
–
Robert Walpole
(
Whig
) (starting 3 April)
[
1
]
Walpole
Events
6 January – The Committee of Inquiry on the collapse of the
South Sea Company
publishes its findings.
5 February –
Lord Stanhope
, chief minister, dies a day after collapsing while vigorously defending his government's conduct over the "South Sea Bubble" in Parliament.
9 March –
John Aislabie
imprisoned in the
Tower of London
, found guilty of corruption for his part in the collapse of the South Sea Company as
Chancellor of the Exchequer
.
[
2
]
c. March –
Atterbury Plot
to restore the Stuart monarchy begins.
4 April –
Robert Walpole
becomes the first
Prime Minister
(although this is more a term of disparagement at this time).
[
3
]
Undated
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
introduces
smallpox
inoculation to Britain: the
Princess of Wales
is persuaded to test the treatment and the procedure becomes fashionable.
[
2
]
Thomas Guy
founds
Guy's Hospital
in
London
.
[
4
]
Regular mail service between London and
New England
is established.
[
5
]
Publications
Nathan Bailey
publishes
An Universal Etymological English Dictionary
.
[
2
]
Thomas Parnell
's
A Night-Piece on Death
is published, inaugurating the "
Graveyard poets
" movement.
Births
2 January –
John Manners, Marquess of Granby
(died
1770
)
19 March –
Tobias Smollett
, physician and author (died
1771
)
15 April –
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
, military leader (died
1765
)
14 July –
John Douglas
, Anglican bishop and man of letters (died
1807
)
4 August –
Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford
, politician (died
1803
)
31 August –
George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol
, statesman (died
1775
)
9 November –
Mark Akenside
, poet and physician (died
1770
)
6 December –
James Elphinston
, philologist (died
1809
)
Deaths
5 February –
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
, statesman and soldier (born c.
1673
)
16 February –
James Craggs the Younger
, politician (born
1686
)
24 February –
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
, statesman and poet (born
1648
)
16 March –
James Craggs the Elder
, politician (born
1657
)
28 April –
Mary Read
, pirate, in Jamaica (born
1685
)
11 June –
Sir Anthony Deane
, naval architect and politician (born
1633
)
8 July –
Elihu Yale
, East India merchant and educationist (born 1649 in Massachusetts)
3 August –
Grinling Gibbons
, sculptor (born 1648 in Rotterdam)
18 September –
Matthew Prior
, poet and diplomat (born
1664
)
11 October –
Edward Colston
, merchant and philanthropist (born
1636
)
13 December –
Alexander Selkirk
, sailor (born
1676 in Scotland
)
17 December –
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough
, statesman (born
1650
)
See also
1721 in Wales
References
^
"The National Archives - Sir Robert Walpole: Britain's first Prime Minister"
.
The National Archives blog
. 1 April 2021
. Retrieved
12 June
2023
.
^
a
b
c
Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History
. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
ISBN
0-304-35730-8
.
^
"Sir Robert Walpole"
.
10
. HM Government. Archived from
the original
on 2011-11-01
. Retrieved
2011-11-16
.
^
"History of Guy's and St Thomas' Charity"
. Archived from
the original
on 28 September 2007
. Retrieved
2007-09-03
.
^
Clear, Todd R.; Cole, George F.; Resig, Michael D. (2006).
American Corrections
(7th ed.). Thompson.
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