Events from the year 1724 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Events
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Births
- 24 January - Frances Brooke, writer (died 1789)
- 28 February - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, field marshal (died 1807)
- 29 April - John Michell, scientist and geologist (died 1793)
- 19 May - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, admiral and politician (died 1779)
- 3 June - John Gregory, physician, medical writer and moralist (died 1773)
- 8 June - John Smeaton, civil engineer (died 1792)
- 25 August - George Stubbs, painter (died 1806)
- 3 September - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, soldier and Governor of Quebec (died 1808)
- 31 October - Christopher Anstey, writer (died 1805)
- 12 December - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, admiral (died 1816)
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