1730 in Great Britain

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Prime Minister – Robert Walpole

Events

• 3 February – The Daily Advertiser is founded in London as the first newspaper funded by advertising.
• 12 March – John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.
• 15 May – Walpole–Townshend ministry dissolved when Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend resigns as Secretary of State for the Northern Department after a dispute with Robert Walpole.

Undated

• The population of the UK exceeds 10 million for the first time.
• Reputedly the last originally native roe deer in England is killed at Hexham, Northumberland.

Births

• 9 January – John Scott of Amwell, Quaker poet and landscape gardener
• 27 March – Thomas Tyrwhitt, classical scholar and critic
• 16 April – Henry Clinton, general
• 26 April – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 13 May – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister
• 12 July – Josiah Wedgwood, pottery manufacturer and abolitionist
• 1 August – Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, Anglican Bishop of Derry, art collector and philanthropist
• 7 September – Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer
• 1 November – George Horne, bishop
• 14 December – James Bruce, Scottish explorer of the Nile
• 30 December – William Hamilton, diplomat and antiquary date unknown – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Scottish peer and colonial governor in the Americas

Deaths

• 1 January – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, politician
• 13 May – Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet, landowner and politician
• 30 May – Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II
• 19 June – Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, judge and politician
• 9 September – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, courtier
• 27 September – Laurence Eusden, poet laureate
• 23 October – Anne Oldfield, actress