The following events occurred in Great Britain in the year 1724.
Incumbents
Events
Publications
Births
- 24 January â Frances Brooke, writer (died 1789)
- 28 February â George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, field marshal (died 1807)
- 19 May â Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, admiral and politician (died 1779)
- 3 June â John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (died 1773)
- 8 June â John Smeaton, civil engineer (died 1792)
- 25 August â George Stubbs, painter (died 1806)
- 3 September â Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, soldier and Governor of Quebec (died 1808)
- 31 October â Christopher Anstey, writer (died 1805)
- 12 December â Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, admiral (died 1816)
- 25 December â John Michell, scientist and geologist (died 1793)
Deaths
- 1 January â Charles Gildon, critic and dramatist (born c. 1665)
- 12 February â Elkanah Settle, writer (born 1648)
- 21 May â Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, statesman (born 1661)
- 15 June â Henry Sacheverell, churchman and politician (born 1674)
- 29 October â William Wollaston, philosophical writer (born 1659)
- 11 November â Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), highwayman (executed) (born 1700)
- 16 November â Jack Sheppard, criminal (executed) (born 1702)
- 29 November â Laurence Braddon, writer and politician (year of birth not known)
- 27 December â Thomas Guy, philanthropist (born 1644)
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