1721 in Great Britain

none 1721 Events from the year 1721 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George I Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig) (starting 3 April)The National Archives - Sir Robert Walpole: Britain’s first Prime Minister https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/sir-robert-walpole-britains-first-prime-minister/ The National Archives blog 12 June 2023 1 April 2021 thumb|upright|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.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 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).Sir Robert Walpole http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/sir-robert-walpole/ 10 HM Government 2011-11-16 https://web.archive.org/web/20111101195959/http://www.number10.gov.uk/history-and-tour/sir-robert-walpole/ 2011-11-01 dead 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. Thomas Guy founds Guy's Hospital in London.http://www.gsttcharity.org.uk/aboutus/index.html History of Guy's and St Thomas' Charity 2007-09-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081956/http://www.gsttcharity.org.uk/aboutus/index.html 28 September 2007 Regular mail service between London and New England is established.Clear, Todd R. Cole, George F. Resig, Michael D. 2006 American Corrections 7th Thompson Publications Nathan Bailey publishes An Universal Etymological English Dictionary. 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) 8 March – Elizabeth Pierrepont (née Chudleigh), Duchess of Kingston, courtier and adventuress (died 1788 in France) 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 27 January – Joshua Churchill, politician 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) April – Mary Read, pirate, in Jamaica 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, slave trader and philanthropist (born 1636) 13 December – Alexander Selkirk, sailor, at sea (born 1676 in Scotland) 17 December – Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, statesman (born 1650) See also 1721 in Wales References 1721 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1721 by country Category:1720s in Great Britain Category:1721 in Europe