Incorporated in 1761, Grantham takes its name from Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, Secretary of State for the Southern Department from March 1754 to October 1755.

When his father Septimus Robinson died in 1754, Matthew inherited, among other things, a family estate at Mount Morris near Canterbury.

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.

* Sir Tancred Robinson, 3rd Baronet ( c. 1685 – 1754 )

He was educated at the Collège des Quatre-Nations ( also known as Collège Mazarin ) from 1754 to 1761, studying chemistry, botany, astronomy, and mathematics.

The university was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain.

But it was then that Hume started his great historical work The History of England, which took fifteen years and ran over a million words, to be published in six volumes in the period between 1754 and 1762, while also involved with the Canongate Theatre.

The residence of the President of Ireland ( Áras an Uachtaráin ), which was built in 1754, is located in the park.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

Christian Wolff ( 1679 – 1754 ) was the pioneer as a writer who expounded the Enlightenment to German readers ; he legitimized German as a philosophic language.

This direct relationship between curved streamlines and pressure differences was derived from Newton's second law by Leonard Euler in 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.

In 1754, de Lacaille was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Not until 1754 was the artillery school reopened on a semi-secret basis.

Starting in 1754 a daily stagecoach ran between Berlin and Potsdam, although the road was in poor shape.

Educated at Rugby and the University of Edinburgh, in 1754 he was sent to Leipzig University to study civil law, with a view to his proceeding to a career as an advocate.

Its role was last redefined by statute in 1987, and it probably came into being as a military branch in 1754 ; however, the unit also uses the name " Fortress Guards " which may be traced back to much earlier units of Sammarinese military.

The first reference to spacetime as a mathematical concept was in 1754 by Jean le Rond d ' Alembert in the article Dimension in Encyclopedie.

Thomas Bowdler (; 11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825 ) was an English physician and philanthropist, best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work, edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, intended to be more appropriate for 19th century women and children than the original.

In 1754, Henry Pelham died suddenly, and was succeeded as Prime Minister by his brother, the Duke of Newcastle.

From 1754 Britain was increasingly drawn into conflict with France during this period, despite Newcastle's wish to maintain the peace.

Vice Admiral William Bligh, FRS, RN ( 9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

Year 1754 ( MDCCLIV ) was a common year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and eventually became assistant master.

Bernadotte was born in Pau, France, as the son of Jean Henri Bernadotte ( Pau, Béarn, 14 October 1711 – Pau, 31 March 1780 ), procurator at Pau, and wife ( married at Boëil-Bezing, 20 February 1754 ) Jeanne de Saint-Vincent ( Pau, 1 April 1728 – Pau, 8 January 1809 ).

His brother Jean Bernadotte ( Pau, 1754 – Pau, 8 August 1813 ) was eventually made 1st Baron Bernadotte and married Marie Anne Charlotte de Saint-Paul.

These dates do not correspond with the fighting on mainland North America, where the fighting between the two colonial powers was largely concluded in six years, from the Battle of Jumonville Glen in 1754 to the capture of Montreal in 1760.

In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Among Men ( 1754 ), Rousseau maintained that man in a State of Nature had been a solitary, ape-like creature, who was not méchant ( bad ), as Hobbes had maintained, but ( like some other animals ) had an " innate repugnance to see others of his kind suffer " ( and this natural sympathy constituted the Natural Man's one-and-only natural virtue ).

Baron Jurij Bartolomej Vega ( also correct Veha ; official ; ) ( born Vehovec, March 23, 1754 – September 26, 1802 ) was a Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer.

The world's first professorship in political economy was established in 1754 at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy ( then capital city of the Kingdom of Naples ); the Neapolitan philosopher Antonio Genovesi was the first tenured professor ; in 1763 Joseph von Sonnenfels was appointed a Political Economy chair at the University of Vienna, Austria.

It was named after Jean N. Destréhan ( 1754 – 1823 ) who served as President of the Territorial Council and was appointed to the United States Senate in 1812, but resigned before he took his seat.

Wilkes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1749 and appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1754.

Blair was appointed to the charge of Lady Yester's Kirk in 1754, and four years later was promoted to the High Church of St. Giles ; the highest position that a clergyman could achieve in Scotland.

In 1802, William Fullarton ( 1754 – 1808 ) was appointed as the Senior Member of a commission to govern the island, Samuel Hood became the second member, and Picton himself the junior.

George Wythe was appointed to the Virginia House of Burgesses from Williamsburg, Virginia in the session of August 22, 1754 in place of the deceased Armistead Burwell.

In 1754 he was made Comptroller of the Household, a post he held until 1756, and appointed a Privy Counsellor.

When Henry died in 1754, John was appointed magistrate at Bow Street in his place, becoming renowned as the " Blind Beak ", and allegedly being able to recognize three thousand criminals by the sounds of their voices.

In Naples Charles appointed him at first councillor of state, then superintendent of posts, minister of justice in 1752, foreign minister in 1754 and finally prime minister and a marquis.

In 1754, he was appointed chief engineer for General Braddock and went to America with the troops.

He was appointed as a Member of the Council at Fort St. George, Madras between 1754 and 1758.

In 1753 he visited England, and during his absence in 1754 was appointed by the court of directors a member of the council at Madras.

In 1754, he was appointed chief architect of the young court, i. e., the future Peter III and Catherine II, who resided at Oranienbaum.

In 1754, Burton was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 48th Foot, which was involved in the captures of Quebec in 1759 and Martinique and Havanna in 1762.

On 16 August 1754 Dundas was appointed Lord Advocate, having fortunately been returned for Midlothian unopposed on 25 April at the general election.

He was appointed a Lord of Session and Justiciary as Lord Prestongrange in 1754, and a Commissioner of annexed estates in 1755.

Admitted as an advocate in 1710, he was appointed Lord Advocate in 1742 and Lord President of the Court of Session in 1754.

In 1754, Ferdinand VI appointed him ambassador to Portugal and in 1757 director general of Artillery.

On his return to Stuttgart, Thouret was appointed court architect to Frederick II, Duke of Württemberg ( 1754 – 1816 ), in 1799.

John Harris ( 1754 – 1838 ) came to Australia on the Second Fleet in 1790 and was appointed Chief Surgeon of the colony.