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Le Chirurgien de campagne (1747) by Major, after David Teniers the Younger.Dedicated to the Marquis d'Argenson. Major studied drawing and etching under Hubert Gravelot.In 1745, he moved to Paris, where he associated with the English engravers Andrew Lawrence and John Ingram, and was a pupil of Jacques-Philippe Le Bas and Charles-Nicolas Cochin.
Thomas Norton (1684–1748) of Ixworth Abbey, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 to 1747. Norton was the son of Colonel William Norton of Wellow, Hampshire and his wife Elizabeth Norton, daughter of Sir Thomas Norton, 1st Baronet of Coventry. In 1696, he succeeded his ...
An Act for empowering George Montgomerie and Thomas Byrd Esquires, and Ezra Patching, to complete an Undertaking, for furnishing the Inhabitants of the several Parishes and Places of Stratford, Westham, Bow, Bromley, Mile-End, Stepney, and other Parishes and Places adjacent, with Water, and for better securing then Property in such Undertaking.
October – Thomas Herring is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. 25 October – War of the Austrian Succession: Second Battle of Cape Finisterre: British fleet puts an end to French naval operations for the remainder of the war. 17–19 November – Knowles Riot in Boston, Massachusetts, against impressment to the British Royal Navy.
After the war, Thomas Massie married Sarah "Sally" Cocke (1760–1838) in 1781. [6] Sarah who was born at Bremo in Henrico County—the plantation owned by her family—was first-cousin once removed of brigadier general John Hartwell Cocke and great-granddaughter of Richard Cocke, an early Virginia planter who established a great social dynasty and who is an ancestor to many prominent ...
Lieutenant-General Thomas Wentworth (c. 1693–1747), of Sunninghill, Berkshire, was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1743 to 1747. He served in the War of Jenkins' Ear and the Jacobite rising of 1745 .
1747 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1747th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 747th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1747, the ...
He died in Paris on 8 July 1747, in the arms of Nicholas Blakey, and was buried in a timber-yard outside the Porte Saint-Antoine, then the usual place of interment for heretics. His copper plates were bought by Thomas Major and taken to England in 1753. Major left in manuscript a memoir of Lawrence, written in 1785. [1] [2]