Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding use Abigail in this generic sense, as does Charlotte Brontë.

Henry Fielding, Colley Cibber, Arne, Dibdin, Arnold, Shield, Jackson of Exeter, Hook and many others produced ballad operas that enjoyed great popularity.

Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.

Henry Fielding wrote a pamphlet titled The Female Husband in 1746, based on the life of Mary Hamilton, who married women on three separate occasions, and was sentenced to public whipping in four separate towns and six months in jail.

The cross-dressing actress Charlotte Charke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis Court at St. James's, Westminster, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding.

In 1749 Henry Fielding began organizing a force of quasi-professional constables known as the Bow Street Runners.

* Henry Fielding, English novelist

* 1749: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

* April 22 – Henry Fielding, British novelist and dramatist ( d. 1754 )

* Henry Fielding publishes Joseph Andrews.

* October 8 – Henry Fielding, English novelist ( b. 1707 )

* Henry Fielding organizes the forerunner of the Bow Street Runners in London ( 8 men at first ).

* Amelia ( novel ), a 1751 sentimental novel by Henry Fielding

Writers as diverse as Henry Fielding to Naguib Mahfouz have alluded to the collection by name in their own works.

Walpole's other enemies included Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, and Dr Samuel Johnson.

It was the birthplace of Sir Edward Dyer ( died 1607 ) an Elizabethan poet and courtier, the writer Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), and the cleric William Gould.

Sarah Fielding, the 18th-century author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding, lived in the town.

Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).

In the London literary world, he was a rival of Henry Fielding, and the two responded to each other's literary styles in their own novels.

One such advocate of the happy ending was Henry Fielding, who had previously written Joseph Andrews to mock Richardson's Pamela.

It, and Le Paysan parvenu, have some connection to the work of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding.

His three most successful works were Le sorcier ( 1764 ), Tom Jones ( after Henry Fielding, 1765 ), and Ernelinde ( 1767 ).

The pink-fronted Rose House facing the area's pond dates to the 17th century, while Milbourne House facing The Green, the area's oldest, parts of which date to the 16th century, once belonged to Henry Fielding.

* Henry Maundrell ( 1836 ): A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem: At Easter, A. D. 1697: to which is Added an Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia 271 pages

Aside from his own tale, Tom figures in Henry Fielding's play Tom Thumb, a companion piece to his The Author's Farce.

While Dryden's own plays would themselves furnish later mock-heroics ( specifically, The Conquest of Granada is satirized in the mock-heroic The Author's Farce and Tom Thumb by Henry Fielding, as well as The Rehearsal ), Dryden's MacFlecknoe is perhaps the locus classicus of the mock-heroic form as it would be practiced for a century to come.

* 1730 – Henry Clinton, English general ( d. 1795 )

Charles was the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II ( 1730 – 1787 ) and Lucy Grymes ( 1734 – 1792 ).

# Sarah Caldwell " Sally " Lee ( 1775 – 1837 ), who married Edmund Jennings Lee I ( 1772 – 1843 ), son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II ( 1730 – 1787 ) and Lucy Grymes ( 1734 – 1792 ).

Pitt ostentatiously made this clear to everyone, although he was in fact following what Henry Pelham had done when he had held the post between 1730 and 1743.

* December 23 – Henry Clinton, British general ( b. 1730 )

* General Sir Henry Clinton ( 1730 – 1795 ), British general during the American Revolutionary War

* Henry VII Lady Chapel, to George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle ( 1730 )

* Scotchtown, c. 1730, Hanover County — home of Patrick Henry

* Stratford Hall Plantation, 1730, Westmoreland County — home of the Lee family ( Thomas Lee ; birthplace of Richard Henry Lee and Robert E. Lee )

* Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine ( 1676 – 25 December 1730 ).

He was succeeded in the title by his eldest son Lucius, 3rd Viscount Falkland, his male descent becoming extinct in the person of Anthony, 5th viscount, in 1694, when the viscounty passed to Lucius Henry ( 1687 – 1730 ), a descendant of the first viscount and his direct descendants.

General Sir Henry Clinton KB ( 16 April 1730 – 23 December 1795 ) was a British army officer and politician, best known for his service as a general during the American War of Independence.

Henry Clinton was born, probably in 1730, to Admiral George Clinton

In 1730 English dramatist Henry Fielding used Tom Thumb as the central figure of a play by that name, which he rewrote in 1731 as The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the History of Tom Thumb the Great.

Henry Thrale ( 1724 / 1730 ?– 4 April 1781 ) was an 18th century English Member of Parliament ( MP ) and a close friend of Samuel Johnson.

* Henry Horwitz, ‘ Finch, Daniel, second earl of Nottingham and seventh earl of Winchilsea ( 1647 – 1730 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2009, accessed 30 January 2011.

Lee was born near Dumfries, Virginia, the son of Henry Lee II ( 1730 – 1787 ) of " Leesylvania " and Lucy Grymes ( 1734 – 1792 ) the " Lowland Beauty.

Henry Pelham, who served as Secretary at War between 1724 and 1730

* Lucius Henry Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland ( 1687 – 1730 )

* Sir Henry Northcote, 4th Baronet ( 1667 – 1730 )

Henry Clinton ( 1730 – 1795 ) | General Sir Henry Clinton

Their children were Sir Henry Clinton ( 1730 – 1795 ), who became an English commander in the American Revolutionary War and Lucy Mary Clinton, who married Admiral Robert Roddam and four other children who died in infancy.

Over the centuries, many notable architects have worked on it, including its first owner, Thomas Chicheley ( between 1640 and 1670 ), James Gibbs ( between 1713 and 1730 ), James Thornhill ( 1721 ), Henry Flitcroft ( around 1749 ), John Soane ( 1790s ), and H. E. Kendall ( 1840s ).