From Hudson Bay, in 1690 Henry Kelsey reached the lower Saskatchewan River, in 1754 Anthony Henday followed the Saskatchewan almost to the Rocky Mountains and in 1771 Samuel Hearne reached the Arctic coast at the Coppermine River.

* 1745 – 1754 George Henry Rooke

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

* September 25 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1754 )

** Henry Pelham ( 1694 – 1754 )

In 1754 Henry married Sarah Shelton, reportedly in the parlor of her family house, Rural Plains.

Johan moved to Lampeter Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, married the former Frena Howery, and they had three children there-Christian in 1750, Henry in 1754, and Esther in 1757.

Originally were sold to Henry Funk by Frederick Calvert in 1754 and settled as Jerusalem.

* Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope, 1st Baronet ( 1754 – 1814 )

Henry Pelham ( 25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754 ) was a British Whig statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 27 August 1743 until his death in 1754.

Henry Pelham, MP ( 1725 – 1754 )

* April 22, 1707: Henry Fielding ( died 1754 )

Devonshire supported the Duke of Newcastle after Henry Pelham's death in 1754 and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 2 April 1755 until 3 January 1757 in Newcastle's administration.

* George Augustus Henry Cavendish, created 1st Earl of Burlington of the 2nd creation ( 1754 – 1834 ).

* George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington ( 1754 – 1834 )

In the next fifteen years they would have eight children: Ithamar in 1752, Nahum ( 1754 ), Sara ( 1756 ), Thomas ( 1758 ), Artemas Jr. ( 1762 ), Henry Dana ( 1768 ), Martha ( 1760 ) and Maria ( 1764 ).

When Henry Fielding retired as ' court ' or Chief Magistrate in 1754 he was succeeded by his brother John Fielding, who had previously been his assistant for four years.

He held power with his brother, Henry Pelham ( the Prime Minister of Great Britain ), until 1754.

On Henry Pelham's death in 6 March 1754, Newcastle succeeded him as Prime Minister.

On 6 March 1754, the Prime Minister Henry Pelham died, and this necessitated a Cabinet reshuffle.

In 1754 Long sold it to the first Earl of Shelburne, who employed architect Henry Keene to extend the house.

In 1754 the sudden death of the Prime Minister Henry Pelham brought their rivalry to a head.

In 1751 he became Secretary of State for the Southern Department, transferring in 1754 to the Northern Department, and he remained in office until March 1761, when he was dismissed by King George III in favor of Lord Bute, although he had largely been a cipher in that position to the stronger personalities of his colleagues, successively the Duke of Newcastle, Thomas Robinson, Henry Fox, and William Pitt the Elder.

He allied himself with his brother Richard and with William Pitt ( who became their brother-in-law in 1754 ) in forcing Pelham to give them promotion by rebelling against his authority and obstructing business.

On the death of Pelham in 1754 Hardwicke obtained for Newcastle the post of prime minister, and for reward was created earl of Hardwicke and Viscount Royston ; and when in November 1756 the weakness of the ministry and the threatening aspect of foreign affairs compelled Newcastle to resign, Hardwicke retired with him.

Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 to 1754.

Henry was married to the sister of two powerful Whig politicians Henry Pelham ( Prime Minister from 1743 – 1754 ) and Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle ( who succeeded Henry as Prime Minister ).

* Henry Pelham from the death of Robert Walpole in 1745 until his own death in 1754

* Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle from the death of Pelham in 1754 until the end of his first term in 1756

* Henry Pelham, who died on 6 March 1754.

On his return to Paris in 1754 Lacaille was distressed to find himself an object of public attention ; he withdrew to Mazarin college, where he worked actively for some years, and there died of an attack of gout aggravated by over-work in 1762.

His father died in 1754, and Paul was legally too young to officially be the master of the family silver shop.

# Amedeus Alexander of Savoy ( 5 October 1754 – 29 April 1755 ) died in infancy.

Charlotte died in December 1754 and Lady Burlington died in September 1758, so the villa and gardens passed to the Cavendish family, as did numerous other Boyle residences including Bolton Abbey, Londesborough Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Lismore Castle in Ireland.

When Lord Tyrconnel died in 1754 a catalogue of his library identified almost 2, 300 books.

A son and a daughter, Daniel ( 1751 – 1754 ) and Frances ( 1753 – 1757 ), died in childhood, but two other children, John ( Jacky ) Parke Custis ( 1754 – 1781 ) and Martha (" Patsy ") Parke Custis ( 1756 – 1773 ) survived to young adulthood.

Over the years they would have 12 children: Mary ( 1754 ), Lois ( 1756 ), Miriam ( 1758 ), Rhoda ( 1760 ), Hannah ( who died as an infant in 1762 ), Levi ( 1763 ), Migale ( 1765, died that same year ), Johnathan ( 1768 ), Ezra ( 1770 ), Sarah ( 1773 ), Hannah ( 1776, also died as an infant ) and a child that was never registered.

In 1754, his wife died from an unknown disease.

When Wolff died on 9 April 1754, he was a very wealthy man, almost entirely due to his income from lecture-fees, salaries, and royalties.

Hutchinson's wife died quite suddenly in 1754 ; Hutchinson thereafter threw himself into his work.

* April 22-Henry Fielding, novelist ( died 1754 )

* April 23-Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet ( died 1754 )

* December 27-Sollom Emlyn, Irish legal writer ( died 1754 )

* February 27-Edward Cave, printer and publisher ( died 1754 )

* December 3-Ludvig Holberg, Danish / Norwegian essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright ( died 1754 )

With the promotion of Sir Dudley Ryder to Lord Chief Justice in 1754, he became Attorney General, and when Ryder unexpectedly died several months later, he took his place as Chief Justice.

Catherine Murray ( d. 25 November 1754 ), died unmarried

Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot ( August 18, 1782 – November 16, 1854 ), French soldier, son of General Jean Antoine Marbot ( 1754 – 1800 ), who died in the defence of Genoa under Masséna, was born at La Riviere ( Correze ).