1730 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1730 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – George II
 * Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)

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 (died 1783)
 * 27 March – Thomas Tyrwhitt, classical scholar and critic (died 1786)
 * 16 April – Henry Clinton, general (died 1795)
 * 26 April – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1805)
 * 13 May – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister (died 1782)
 * 12 July – Josiah Wedgwood, pottery manufacturer and abolitionist (died 1795)
 * 1 August – Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol, Anglican Bishop of Derry, art collector and philanthropist (died 1803)
 * 7 September – Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer (died 1765)
 * 1 November – George Horne, bishop (died 1792)
 * 14 December – James Bruce, Scottish explorer of the Nile (died 1794)
 * 30 December – William Hamilton, diplomat and antiquary (died 1803)
 * date unknown – John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Scottish peer and colonial governor in the Americas (died 1809)

Deaths

 * 1 January – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, politician (born 1647)
 * 13 May – Sir Justinian Isham, 4th Baronet, landowner and politician (born 1658)
 * 30 May – Arabella Churchill, mistress of King James II (born 1648)
 * 19 June – Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, judge and politician (born 1658)
 * 9 September – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, courtier (born 1662)
 * 27 September – Laurence Eusden, poet laureate (born 1688)
 * 23 October – Anne Oldfield, actress (born 1683)