1730 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1730 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

3 February â The Daily Advertiser is founded in London as the first newspaper funded by advertising.^[2]
12 March â John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.^[3]
15 May â WalpoleâTownshend 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 â John Scott of Amwell, Quaker poet and landscape gardener (died 1783)
27 March â Thomas Tyrwhitt, classical scholar and critic (died 1786)
16 April â Henry Clinton, general (died 1795)
26 April â John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1805)
13 May â Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (died 1782)^[6]
12 July â Josiah Wedgwood, pottery manufacturer and abolitionist (died 1795)
1 August â Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, Anglican Bishop of Derry, art collector and philanthropist (died 1803)
7 September â Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer (died 1765)
1 November â George Horne, bishop (died 1792)
14 December â James Bruce, Scottish explorer of the Nile (died 1794)
30 December â William Hamilton, diplomat and antiquary (died 1803)
date unknown â John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Scottish peer and colonial governor in the Americas (died 1809)