* 1683 – Conyers Middleton, English minister ( d. 1750 )

Handel was only partly successful with his performances of English Oratorio on mythical and biblical themes, but when he arranged a performance of Messiah to benefit the Foundling Hospital ( 1750 ) the critique ended.

* 1750 – John André, English army officer ( d. 1780 )

It was said in 1703 that the people of Shetland generally spoke English, but that " many among them retain the ancient Danish Language "; while in 1750 Orkney-born James Mackenzie wrote that Norn was not yet entirely extinct, being " retained by old people ", who still spoke it among each other.

In the English-speaking world, the Douay-Rheims Bible — translated from the Latin Vulgate by expatriate recusants in Rheims, France in 1582 ( New Testament ) and in Douai, France in 1609 ( Old Testament )— which was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749 – 1752 ( the 1750 revision is that which is printed today ), was, until the prompting for " new translations from the original languages " given by Pope Pius XII in the 1942 encyclical letter Divino afflante spiritu and the Second Vatican Council, the translation used by most Catholics ( after Divino afflante spiritu, translations multiplied in the Catholic world, just as they multiplied in the Protestant world around the same time beginning with the Revised Standard Version, with various other translations being used around the world for English-language liturgies, ranging from the New American Bible, the Jerusalem Bible, the Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition, and the upcoming English Standard Version Catholic lectionary ).

The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680 – 1750.

* May 6 – Stephen Amherst, English cricketer ( born 1750 )

* February 10 – Aaron Hill, English writer ( d. 1750 )

* Thomas Stock ( 1750 – 1803 ), English clergyman

* May 18 – Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, English aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron ( d. 1750 )

* December 27 – Conyers Middleton, English minister ( d. 1750 )

The French word étiquette, literally signifying a tag or label first appeared in English around 1750.

* Aaron Arrowsmith ( 1750 – 1823 ), English cartographer

Its use was described in detail in English in Navigatio Britannica ( 1750 ) by John Barrow, the mathematician and historian.

The Italian Renaissance Garden in the English Imagination: 1600 – 1750, ( London: Dent & Sons, 1986 )

* Christopher Gist, an early English pioneer and surveyor, and the first European documented to have visited the territory that is now Jenner Township, in 1750.

An English gentleman circa 1750 with his flintlock muzzle-loading sporting rifle.

A notable example that established the genre in English literature is Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ( 1750 ).

* Henry William Bunbury ( 1750 – 1811 ), an English caricaturist

* John Bradford ( 1750 – 1805 ) English dissenting minister

* book " Chebec Le Requin 1750 " with English Translation, by Jean Boudroit, 1991

Conyers Middleton ( December 27, 1683 – July 28, 1750 ) was an English clergyman.

* Boyer, George R. An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750 – 1850.

Henry William Bunbury ( 1750 – 7 May 1811 ) was an English caricaturist.

* 1750 – Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer ( b. 1671 )

* 1750 – Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer ( d. 1848 )

Caroline Lucretia Herschel ( 16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848 ) was a German-British astronomer and the sister of astronomer Sir William Herschel with whom she worked throughout both of their careers.

* Caroline Lucretia Herschel ( 1750 – 1848 ), astronomer and singer, sister of Sir William Herschel

* January 9-Caroline Herschel ( born 1750 ), German astronomer.

* September 27-Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer ( died 1750 )

Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr ( September 27, 1677 – December 1, 1750 ) was a German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, and wrote about sundials.

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

In 1750 Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that Milky Way was a flattened disk of stars, and that some of the nebulae visible in the night sky might be separate Milky Ways.

# 1746 – 1750 Thomas Knapp

* 1750 – Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor ( d. 1823 )

Thomas married Hannah Harrison Ludwell ( 1701 – 1750 ).

Image: Mr and Mrs Andrews 1748-49. jpg | Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs Andrews, 1750

* 1750 — Thomas Wright discusses galaxies and the shape of the Milky Way,

* Thomas Pinckney ( 1750 – 1828 ), early American statesman and diplomat

In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker of Virginia publicized the location of Cumberland Gap, which brought a stream of long hunters down the Clinch and Powell valleys into what is now Claiborne County.

The original survey and plat of the Town of Smithfield was made by Jordan Thomas, County Surveyor, for Captain Arthur Smith in 1750.

The land on which the town of Abingdon is situated was originally surveyed between the years 1748 and 1750 by Dr. Thomas Walker and was part of the Great Road that Colonel William Byrd III ordered cut through the wilderness on to Kingsport, Tennessee.

An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse.

The Forest Service investigated the name ' Cumberland ', and found it came to Kentucky in 1750 when Thomas Walker named the Cumberland River in honor of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.

Chelsea takes its name from the estate and Georgian-style house of retired British Major Thomas Clarke, who obtained the property when he bought the farm of Jacob Somerindyck on August 16, 1750.

In 1750, he attacked Thomas Sherlock's notions of antediluvian prophecy, which had been published 25 years before.

Also included is Thomas Gray's, " Elegy on a Country Churchyard " ( 1750 ).

Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse ( 29 May 1750 – 24 July 1812 ) was a French admiral.

* Thomas Brown ( loyalist ) ( 1750 – 1825 ), American Revolution commander of King's Rangers in Georgia

Portrait of Payne Knight by Thomas Lawrence ( painter ) | Sir Thomas LawrenceRichard Payne Knight ( 15 February 1750 – 23 April 1824 ) was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

* Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Earl of Malton, 6th Baron Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ) ( created Marquess of Rockingham in 1746 )