1730 in Great Britain

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Events from the year 1730 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

3 February – The Daily Advertiser is founded in London as the first newspaper funded by advertising.^[2]
12 March – John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.^[3]
15 May – Walpole–Townshend ministry dissolved when Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend resigns as Secretary of State for the Northern Department after a dispute with Robert Walpole.^[2]

The population of the UK exceeds 10 million for the first time.^[4]
Reputedly the last originally native roe deer in England is killed at Hexham, Northumberland.^[5]

9 January – John Scott of Amwell, Quaker poet and landscape gardener (died 1783)
27 March – Thomas Tyrwhitt, classical scholar and critic (died 1786)
16 April – Henry Clinton, general (died 1795)
26 April – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1805)
13 May – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (died 1782)^[6]
12 July – Josiah Wedgwood, pottery manufacturer and abolitionist (died 1795)
1 August – Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, Anglican Bishop of Derry, art collector and philanthropist (died 1803)
7 September – Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer (died 1765)
1 November – George Horne, bishop (died 1792)
14 December – James Bruce, Scottish explorer of the Nile (died 1794)
30 December – William Hamilton, diplomat and antiquary (died 1803)
date unknown – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Scottish peer and colonial governor in the Americas (died 1809)

^ "History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
^ "Time Series Chart of UK Public Spending". ukpublicspending.co.uk. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
^ Langley, P. J. W.; Yalden, D. W. (1977). "The decline of the rarer carnivores in Great Britain during the nineteenth century". Mammal Review. 7 (3–4): 113. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2907.1977.tb00363.x.
^ "History of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 1 July 2023.