Events from the year 1737 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Births
- 29 January â Thomas Paine, pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, and intellectual (died 1809, New York)
- 19 April – John Small, cricketer (died 1826)
- 27 April â Edward Gibbon, historian (died 1794)
- 2 May â William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister (died 1805)
- 31 July – Princess Augusta of Great Britain, member of the Royal Family (died 1813)
- 11 August â Joseph Nollekens, sculptor (died 1823)
- 14 August â Charles Hutton, mathematician (died 1823)
- 1 October â Charles Towneley, antiquary (died 1805)
- date unknown
- Frances Abington, actress (died 1815)
- Richard Watson, bishop and academic (died 1816)
Deaths
- 24 January â William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1657)
- 29 January â George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, soldier (born 1666)
- 1 February â Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick, Lord President of the Court of Session (born 1652)
- 14 February â Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor (born 1685)
- 20 February â Elizabeth Rowe, poet and novelist (born 1674)
- 4 May â Eustace Budgell, writer (born 1686)
- 27 September â John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, privy councillor (born 1680)
- 29 September â Joseph Adams, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. (born 1700)
- 20 November â Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain (born 1683, Ansbach)
- 11 December â John Strype, historian and biographer (born 1643)
- 27 December â William Bowyer, printer (born 1663)
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