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* 1767 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason ( b. 1710 )
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Andrew Jackson ( March 15, 1767 June 8, 1845 ) was the seventh President of the United States ( 1829 – 1837 ).
According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.
* 1680 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana ( d. 1767 )
Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.
# On 6 January 1788, to Elisabeth of Württemberg ( 21 April 1767 – 18 February 1790 ), who died bearing a short-lived daughter, Ludovika Elisabeth of Austria ( 1790 – 1791 ).
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* William Henry Coombes ( 1767 — 1850 ), Catholic theologian, was a priest in Shepton Mallet from 1810 to 1849, following which he retired to the nearby Downside Abbey.
His three most successful works were Le sorcier ( 1764 ), Tom Jones ( after Henry Fielding, 1765 ), and Ernelinde ( 1767 ).
Henri Christophe ( who used the anglicized version of Henry Christopher ) ( 6 October 1767 – 8 October 1820 ) was a former slave and key leader in the Haitian Revolution, which succeeded in gaining independence from France in 1804.
Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).
His oldest surviving son Henry ( born 1767 ) married the Philadelphia socialite Mary Willing Clymer in 1794.
: For the brother of King Frederick William II of Prussia, see Prince Henry of Prussia ( 1747 – 1767 ).
( 1767 – 1828 ), Flag Captain under Admiral Jervis, Flag Captain of King George III's Royal Yacht ( 1801-4 ) and Commissioner of Sheerness Dockyard ( 1804-6 ) & Portsmouth Dockyard ( 1806 – 28 ), married Mary Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Whitbread ( 1720-1796 ), whose sons: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet ( 1799 – 1882 ) was a British Statesman and Home Secretary, and Charles Samuel Grey, Paymaster of Civil Service in Ireland ; and daughters: Mary married Capt Thomas Monck Mason, Elizabeth married Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, Harriet married Revd John Jenkinson, Hannah Jean married Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet, Jane married Francis Baring,
Wimpole Hall's grounds were laid out and modified by landscape designers such as George London and Henry Wise ( 1693 – 1705 ), Charles Bridgeman ( 1720s ), Robert Greening ( 1740s ), ' Capability ' Brown ( 1767 ), and Humphry Repton ( 1801 – 1809 ).
* The history of the life of King Henry the Second, and of the age in which he lived, in five books: to which is prefixed a history of the revolutions of England from the death of Edward the Confessor to the birth of Henry the Second, George Lyttelton Lyttelton, Baron, London, Printed for W. Sandby and J. Dodsley, 1767 – 1771, Vol iii., pp. 280 – 282
He wrote Dialogues of the Dead in 1760 with Elizabeth Montagu, leader of the bluestockings, and The History of the Life of Henry the Second ( 1767 – 1771 ).
Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood DL ( 25 December 1767 – 24 November 1841 ), known as Viscount Lascelles from 1814 to 1820, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
In 1767 a major architectural " transformation " was begun by Lancelot " Capability " Brown, an architect and landscape designer, and completed by architect Henry Holland, which led to making Broadlands the Palladian-style mansion seen today.
General Lord Charles Henry Somerset PC ( 12 December 1767 – 18 February 1831 ), born in Badminton, England, was a British soldier, politician and colonial administrator.
Henry Joy McCracken ( 31 August 1767 – 17 July 1798 ) was an Irish industrialist and a founding member of the Society of the United Irishmen.
Charles Coote ( 1713-12 February 1776 ), DD, Dean of Kilfenora and wife ( m. 31 July 1753 ) Grace Tilson (- 1 January 1767 ), brother of Charles Henry Coote ( 1754 – 1823 ), who succeeded the last Earl of Mountrath as 2nd Baron Castle Coote in 1802, and nephew of Sir Eyre Coote, KB, the celebrated Indian General, to whose vast estates in England and Ireland he eventually succeeded.
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