* John Wolcot as " Peter Pindar "-A Poetical, Supplicating, Modest and Affecting Epistle to those Literary Colossuses the Reviewers

* John Wolcot as " Peter Pindar "-The Lousiad

Opie's first recorded sketch was made at the age of ten and his work eventually came to the attention of local physician and satirist, Dr John Wolcot ( Peter Pindar ), who visited the teenage artist at his place of work-a sawmill-in 1775.

* John Wolcot as " Peter Pindar "-Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians

* John Wolcot as " Peter Pindar "-More Lyric Odes, to the Royal Academicians

Alternative English language versions of the songs were provided by John Wolcot under the pen name of " Peter Pindar ", but after he withdrew in August 1793 Thomson persuaded Burns to produce the English verses as well as his Scots language lyrics.

His last effort in this line was his Epistle to Peter Pindar ( Dr. John Wolcot ) ( 1800 ), inspired by personal enmity, which evoked a reply, A Cut at a Cobbler and a public letter in which Wolcot threatened to horse-whip Gifford.

John Wolcot, by John Opie

John Wolcot ( 9 May 1738 – 14 January 1819 ), satirist, born in Dodbrooke, near Kingsbridge in Devon, was educated by an uncle, and studied medicine.

Sir William dying in 1772, Wolcot came home and, abandoning the Church, resumed his medical character, and settled in practice at Truro, where he discovered the talents of John Opie, and assisted him.

* Portrait of John Wolcot by John Opie, R. A.

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He became a friend of John Wolcot, and, on his advice, made professional tours in Cornwall.

In 1738, while hearing Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans read at St. Botolph Church on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley famously felt his heart " strangely warmed ", a conversion experience which is often seen as the beginning of Methodism.

By John Singleton Copley ( 1738 – 1815 )

Prince Eugene's Italian manuscript had been presented to him in 1713 by John Frederick Cramer ; and was transferred to the Austrian National Library in Vienna in 1738 with the rest of his library.

* 1738 – John Singleton Copley, American painter ( d. 1815 )

* John Brown ( North Carolina ) ( 1738 – 1812 ), pioneer and statesman

According to John Iliffe, " The worst crises were in the 1680s, when famine extended from the Senegambian coast to the Upper Nile and ' many sold themselves for slaves, only to get a sustenance ', and especially in 1738 – 56, when West Africa's greatest recorded subsistence crisis, due to drought and locusts, reportedly killed half the population of Timbuktu.

* 1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement ; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.

Corbin Washington ( 1764 – 1799 ), son of Col. John Augustine Washington ( 1736 – 1787 ) and Hannah Bushrod ( 1738 – 1801 ).

* November 11 – Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer ( d. 1738 )

* September 9 – John Singleton Copley, American painter ( b. 1738 )

* July 19 – John Palmer, Bath architect ( b. c. 1738 )

In 1738, Lewis Paul and John Wyatt, of Birmingham, England, patented the roller spinning machine, and the flyer-and-bobbin system for drawing cotton to a more even thickness using two sets of rollers that traveled at different speeds.

Lewis Paul and John Wyatt first worked on the problem in 1738, patenting the Roller Spinning machine and the flyer-and-bobbin system, for drawing wool to a more even thickness.

He married Euphemia Erskine ( 1718-1766 ) in 1738, their children included James, John ( 1743-1798 ) and ( Thomas ) David ( 1748-1826 ).

* John Brown ( 1738 – 1812 ), militia captain during the Revolutionary War, served as one of the state Treasurers ( 1782 – 1784 ), and served in the North Carolina state legislature ( 1784 – 1787 ).

John Schell's grandfather Michael Schell, the progenitor of this branch of the Schell family in America, first arrived in Philadelphia from the Palatinate by way of Rotterdam in 1727, after which more family members arrived in 1732 and again in 1738.

John Elder, the " Fighting Parson ," became pastor in 1738.

Although some contemporary sources suggest there was coal mining in Oldham at a commercial scale by 1738, older sources attribute the commercial expansion of coal mining with the arrival in the town of two Welsh labourers, John Evans and William Jones, around 1770.

In 1738, shortly after his return, he explained, in a memoir read before the Academy, the advantages of John Flamsteed's mode of determining right ascensions.

John Wheeler, who had been instrumental in proving the cases against his former colleagues, and who was freed, died at Hackney in January 1738.

On 12 September 1738 therefore, John Turpin was committed to gaol in Essex on charges of horse theft, but following his help in preventing a jailbreak, the charges were dropped on 5 March 1739.

In 1737 his King and the Miller of Mansfield, a " dramatic tale " of King Henry II, was produced at Drury Lane, and received with much applause ; the sequel, Sir John Cockle at Court, a farce, appeared in 1738.

Historian John Fredriksen claims that Clinton was born in Newfoundland ; his father was posted there from 1732 to 1738.

He also won a silver medal for his Latin verses on John Milton, gave the annual Latin oration in 1738, and was noted as having been the favourite student of his masters.

This series was written by William Guthrie, Samuel Johnson, and John Hawkesworth, and was printed in Edward Cave's periodical The Gentleman's Magazine from 1738 to 1746.