people/1720s

British peer and politician

Innovative British cartographer

German poet and clergyman (1721–1793)

American politician (1729 – 1811)

British Methodist cleric (1729–1785)

English clergyman and antiquarian (1721–1801)

Anglo-Irish nobleman, soldier and politician

French master clockmaker and watchmaker

Italian Benedictine, historian and archaeologist

18th-century English clergyman and author

German painter (1722–1789)

French priest and Catholic historian

Irish politician

Irish politician

French engineer and cartographer

Russian soldier and politician (1722–1784)

English cleric and writer (1721-1795)

Scottish painter (1724–1772)

English dissenting clergyman and teacher (1729–1796)

Politician in 18th century England

British Army officer and colonial administrator (1721–1794)

Domestic partner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1721–1801)

Dutch Lutheran minister and author

Italian composer

English poet and scholar (1720–1769)

British politician (1721–1803)

Danish philologist and theologian

English painter

Hungarian Jesuit Abbot, canon, librarian and historian

Swedish agriculturalist (1724–1786)

King of Bhaktapur from 1696 to 1722

German-Danish botanist of the 18th century

Friend of William Cowper (1724–1796)

English translator

Swiss architect (1720–1800)

Ruler of the First Saudi State, 1765–1803

American politician (1721–1803)

French painter

English painter (1726–1770)

French-Italian composer

English Tory politician and peer