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February 13 – William Wotton, English scholar, target of Jonathan Swift (born 1666) [4] September 17 – Glückel of Hameln, German diarist (born 1647) September 25 – Sarah Kemble Knight, diarist in colonial Massachusetts (born 1666) [5]
John Randolph (1727 – January 31, 1784) was an American lawyer and politician from Williamsburg in the British colony of Virginia. He served as king's attorney for Virginia from 1766 until he left for Britain at the outset of the American Revolution .
In 1727, Daniel Defoe wrote in The Complete English Tradesman: "In the good old days of Trade, which our Fore-fathers plodded on in." [6] In this part of his book, Defoe talks about how in 'the good old days' tradesmen were better off than in Defoe's time.
The coronation of George II and his wife Caroline as king and queen of Great Britain and Ireland took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 11/22 O.S./N.S. October 1727. [1] For the coronation, George Frideric Handel was commissioned to write four new coronation anthems, one of which, Zadok the Priest, has been sung at British coronations ever since. [2]
Daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot, Jean was born in 1727 at Minto House in Teviotdale.. During the Jacobite rising of 1745, when a posse of Jacobite Army soldiers came to arrest her influential father, Jean received and entertained the officers at Minto House with such calmness, courtesy and composure that she was able to convince them that her father was not within reach when he was actually ...
Artemas Ward was born at Shrewsbury in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1727 to Nahum Ward (1684–1754) and Martha (Howe) Ward. [2] He was the sixth of seven children. His father had broad and successful career interests as a sea captain, merchant, land developer, farmer, lawyer and jurist. As a child he attended the common schools and ...
1727 English cricket season: Events from the year 1727 in Great Britain. This year sees a change of monarch. Incumbents. Monarch – George I (until 11 June), ...
He was born in Exeter but at the age of 10 his family moved to London, where his father served as the minister of the Baptist church in Little Wild Street.Samuel succeeded his father as minister in 1758, a position which he held until his death.