Events from the year 1740 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
Unknown dates
Births
- 10 January – Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain, member of the Royal Family (died 1759)
- 27 June – James Woodforde, clergyman and diarist (died 1803)
- 17 September â John Hamilton Mortimer, painter (died 1779)
- 29 October â James Boswell, author (died 1795)
- 24 November â John Bacon, sculptor (died 1799)
- c. December â Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang (died 1794)
- date unknown
- Margaret Bingham, Countess of Lucan, portrait painter and writer (died 1814)
- Thomas White, cricketer (died 1831)
- Christopher Wyvill, cleric, landowner and political reformer (died 1822)
- William Yalden, cricketer (died 1824)
Deaths
- 29 January â Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough, military officer and politician, suicide (born 1686)
- 19 February â Hester Pinney, businesswoman (born 1658)
- 23 April â Thomas Tickell, writer (born 1685)
- 6 June â Alexander Spotswood, governor of Virginia Colony (born 1676)
- 17 June â Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet, politician (born 1687)
- 20 December â Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, military officer and statesman (born 1675)
- 23 December â Daniel Waterland, English theologian (born 1683)
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