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In 1742 a Glasgow merchant named Robert Boyd purchased the ' Old Extent of Windyedge ' and renamed it Mount Vernon, in honour of Admiral Edward Vernon of the Royal Navy who was famous at that time for his expedition against the Spanish Main.
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1742 and Glasgow
( Glasgow, 1742 ); Metaphysicae synopsis ontologiam et pneumatologiam campleciens ( Glasgow, 1742 ).
* The Saint's Pocket-Book, Glasgow, 1742
Educated at the University of Glasgow, he became an advocate in 1742 and was solicitor of the Excise in Scotland from 1755.
1742 and merchant
The first beer pump known in England is believed to have been invented by John Lofting ( b. Netherlands 1659-d. Great Marlow Buckinghamshire 1742 ) an inventor, manufacturer and merchant of London.
John Tayler ( July 4, 1742 – March 19, 1829 ) was a merchant and politician.
The son of a Dublin-based Dutch merchant, Hone moved to England as a young man and, after marrying in 1742, eventually settled in London, by which time he had acquired a reputation as a portrait-painter.
Lambert Cadwalader ( December 1742 – September 13, 1823 ) was an American merchant and leader in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
His merchant father John Macomb had immigrated from Ireland to New York about 1742, and removed to Albany, New York, in 1745.
It was acquired by Augustus III of Poland from a Dutch merchant in 1742 at the Leipzig Fair.
* William Clark ( merchant ) ( 1670 – 1742 ), merchant and town official in Boston, Massachusetts
* John Cadwalader ( 1742 – 1786 ), an American merchant and soldier from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Lambert Cadwalader ( 1742 – 1823 ), an American merchant and leader in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
* Jonathan Bayard Smith ( 1742 – 1812 ), American merchant, delegate to the Continental Congress
Jonathan Bayard Smith ( February 21, 1742 – June 16, 1812 ) was an American merchant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* John Cadwalader ( general ) ( 1742 – 1786 ), known as " General John Cadwalader ", Pennsylvanian merchant, general in the Revolutionary War
1742 and named
The city, formerly named Christianssund, is named after the Danish-Norwegian king Christian VI in 1742.
It is named after German surgeon August Gottlieb Richter ( 1742 – 1812 ).
It was named for Richard Edgcumbe, a Member of Parliament from 1701 to 1742 and a lord of the treasury, who became 1st Baron Edgcumbe in 1742.
The name of the genus is due to Carolus " Carl " Linnaeus, who named the tree in 1742 after a Countess of Chinchón, the wife of a viceroy of Peru, who, in 1638, was introduced by native Quechua healers to the medicinal properties of cinchona bark.
In 1742, on the basis of a specimen received from La Condamine, Linnaeus named the tree Quinquina condaminiae and established a new genus, which he termed Cinchona quinquina condaminiae.
In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising in 1715, General Wade built a fort ( taking from 1729 until 1742 ) which was named after the Duke of Cumberland.
In 1742 a Scottish trader named John Fraser ( frontiersman ) from eastern Pennsylvania acquired land at the location of the current Edgar Thomson Steel Works from Queen Aliquippa and the Lenape people.
The village of Greenville is named after Revolutionary War General, Nathanael Greene, who was born in Rhode Island in 1742.
He was, in 1742, named professor extraordinarius of ancient literature in the university of Leipzig, and in 1756 professor ordinarius of rhetoric.
Though it is unclear as to when galvanized iron pipe was first used, a French chemist named Melouin is credited with developing the process in 1742.
The name has been suggested to be related to Russian Липа ( lipa ), linden tree or to Filippovka, a holiday name dedicated to Saint Philip, however, the accepted etymology says it's derived from name of Filipp Pustosviat ( 1672 – 1742 ), the adepts of whom being named filippovcy or ( fi ) lippovane.
It was named in 1845 for Austrian mineralogist Ignaz von Born ( 1742 – 1791 ).
He had a narrow escape from being killed at the capture of Paita ( 13 November 1741 ), and was named acting lieutenant in 1742.
Rennell Island may have been named for the oceanographer James Rennell, FRS ( 1742 – 1830 ).
) Nathaniel Folsom's father, Jonathan ( c. 1685 – 1740 ) married Ann Ladd ( 1691 – 1742 ), and she gave birth to Anna, Sarah, Lydia, Elizabeth, Abigail, John, Mary, Nathaniel, Jonathan, Samuel, Josiah and Trueworthy ( named for Folsom's Treworgy ancestors ).
Lake Melville was named for Viscount Melville ( 1742 – 1811 ), a prominent British politician.
In 1742 a cottage was built on what is now the High Street ( close to the junction with what is now Brighton Place ) by a seaman who had served under Admiral Edward Vernon during the 1739 capture of Porto Bello, Panama, meaning literally " beautiful port or harbour ", and who named the cottage Portobello Hut in honour of that victory.
In 1742, most of Silesia was seized by King Frederick the Great of Prussia in the War of the Austrian Succession, who in his first declaration to the Silesians named himself a ' Piast prince ' ( he was in fact a remote descendant ).
Hobson was a pit village, the colliery was named Burnopfield Colliery and was sunk in 1742 and closed in 1968.
In 1742, the House of Burgesses, authorized a new town at Constant's Wharf, and named it " Suffolk " after Royal Governor William Gooch's home county of Suffolk in England.
It is named after the Scottish anatomist Dr. James Douglas ( 1675 – 1742 ) who extensively explored this region of the female body.
A man named William Lynch did indeed claim to have originated the term during the American Revolutionary War, but he was born in 1742, thirty years after the alleged delivery of the speech.
1742 and Robert
Robert Jenkins, of “ Jenkins Ear ” fame ( governor 1740 – 1742 ) embarked on a programme of eliminating corruption and improving the defences.
Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.
The leader of the Whigs was Robert Walpole, who maintained control of the government in the period 1721 – 1742 ; his protégé was Henry Pelham ( 1743 – 54 ).
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC ( 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745 ), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Sir Robert Walpole, KG, KB, MP ( 1726 – 1742 )
Dundas was the fourth son of Robert Dundas, of Arniston, the elder ( 1685 – 1753 ), Lord President of the Court of Session, and was born at Dalkeith in 1742.
A protégé of Sir Robert Walpole, he served under him for more than twenty years until 1742.
In 1742, however, the government of Sir Robert Walpole fell, and Murray's brother-in-law, the Earl of Nottingham, became First Lord of the Admiralty in the new Cabinet.
* Robert Stewart, de jure 8th Baron Castle Stewart ( 1700 – 1742 )
Born in Dalkeith: the American Architecht Robert Smith ( 1722 ), the politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville ( 1742 ), the artist John Kay ( 1742 ), Robert Aitken who published the first Bible in North America, David Mushet, who pioneered iron production, photographer Robert Macpherson ( 1814 ), and the mathematical physicist Peter Guthrie Tait ( 1831 ).
After the fall of Sir Robert Walpole he was dismissed ( July 1742 ) from his office.
Edgcumbe was a faithful follower of the Whig Sir Robert Walpole, in whose interests he managed the elections for the Cornish boroughs, and his elevation to the peerage, which took place in 1742, was designed to prevent him from giving evidence about Walpole's expenditure of the secret service money.
For most of this period ( at first under the leadership of Sir William Wyndham ), the Tories retained party cohesion, with occasional hopes of regaining office, particularly at the accession of George II ( 1727 ) and the downfall of the ministry of Sir Robert Walpole in 1742.
* Robert James Petre, 8th Baron Petre ( 1713 – 1742 )
* Robert Edward Petre, 9th Baron Petre ( 1742 – 1801 )
On Sir Robert Walpole's retirement from the House of Commons in 1742, he was himself raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Walpole, of Houghton in the County of Norfolk, Viscount Walpole and Earl of Orford, with remainder to the heirs male of his body.
Among the lives of Sydenham are one ( anonymous ) by Samuel Johnson in John Swan's translation of his works ( London, 1742 ), another by CG Kuhn in his edition of his works ( Leipzig, 1827 ), and a third by Robert Gordon Latham in his translation of his works published in London by the Sydenham Society in 1848.
* Robert Craigie: 1742 – 1746
* 1742: Robert Dundas *
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