Society corrupts men only insofar as the Social Contract has not de facto succeeded, as we see in contemporary society as described in the Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ).

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

He had already succeeded his mother as seventh Baron Clifford in 1754.

Newcastle ultimately succeeded him as Prime Minister of Great Britain | Prime Minister in 1754.

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.

It was suppressed in 1749, but he immediately replaced it by Lettres sur quelques écrits de ce temps, which, with the exception of a short suspension in 1752, on account of an attack on the character of Voltaire, was continued till 1754, when it was succeeded by the more ambitious Année littéraire.

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

He was styled Viscount Royston from 1754 till 1764, when he succeeded to the earldom.

In 1754, John Potter, who had been rated ( i. e. paid property tax ) for the theatre since its opening, was succeeded by John Whitehead.

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 ).

Part of his early life was spent abroad, and in 1754 he entered the Jesuit novitiate either at St Omer or at Hesdin, but returned to Ireland in the following year, when he succeeded to the family estates through the death of his brother in a duel.

The prince's assault on 3 January 1754 succeeded, forcing Hanthawaddy troops to withdraw in disarray.

With the death of his elder brother in 1746, he became known by the courtesy title of Viscount Trentham until he succeeded his father as Earl Gower in 1754.

As eldest son, he succeeded his father to the title Viscount Gage on 21 December 1754.

Fielding's blind half-brother, Sir John Fielding ( known as the " Blind Beak of Bow Street "), succeeded his brother as magistrate in 1754 and refined the patrol into the first truly effective police force for the capital.

Charles Coote ( 1713-12 February 1776 ), DD, Dean of Kilfenora and wife ( m. 31 July 1753 ) Grace Tilson (- 1 January 1767 ), brother of Charles Henry Coote ( 1754 – 1823 ), who succeeded the last Earl of Mountrath as 2nd Baron Castle Coote in 1802, and nephew of Sir Eyre Coote, KB, the celebrated Indian General, to whose vast estates in England and Ireland he eventually succeeded.

John Wheelock ( January 28, 1754 – April 4, 1817 ) was the eldest son of Eleazar Wheelock who was the founder and first president of Dartmouth College ; John Wheelock succeeded his father as the College ’ s second president.

When Namier died in 1960, Brooke succeeded him as editor of the section dealing with 1754 to 1790.

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

In early November 1754, Richardson and his family moved from the Grange to a home at Parson's Green.

His mother Jeanne Françoise Victoire Julie ( 1754 – 1832 ) came from Croisilles, Calvados and was a rigid and formal woman coming from an ancient family of the rural nobility of Lower Normandy.

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

After the death of its builder and original occupant in 1753, and the subsequent deaths of his last surviving daughter Charlotte Boyle in 1754 and his widow in 1758, the property was ceded to the Cavendish family and William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, the husband of Charlotte.

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.

Among the first Euro-American settlers to move into the newly-gained territory was Frederick Emert ( 1754 – 1829 ), who arrived with his family sometime between 1785 and 1793.

In 1754 Chippendale moved to 60 – 62 St. Martin's Lane in London, where for the next 60 years the family business operated until 1813 when his son, Thomas Chippendale ( Junior ), was evicted for bankruptcy.

From 1754 to 1771, Chew and his family lived on Front Street in Philadelphia.

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

Dowdeswell became member of Parliament for the family borough of Tewkesbury in 1747, retaining this seat until 1754, and from 1761 until his death he was one of the representatives of Worcestershire.

In 1754, Byng commissioned the building of the Palladian mansion Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire, which remains in the family to this day.

He also befriended Winckelmann, who lived with him and his family in 1754 / 55.

François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat ( August 18, 1754 – October 3, 1833 ), French general and military engineer, was born at Saint-Sernin ( Charente Inferieure ), of a noble family, and entered the French engineers in 1774.

He took the additional name of Hampden in 1754, on succeeding to the estates of that family, from John Hampden.

The castle and surrounding lands were bought by the Seymour-Conway family in 1754.

The Gibbons family owned the manorial rights from 1754 to 1933, and slowly sold off the estate from the 1800's.

Born into a Long Island family of Dutch and French Huguenot ancestry, he had practiced law in New York City after his graduation from Yale in 1754.

Some members of the family followed Major General Joachim Daniel von Jauch ( 1688 – 1754 ) as officers into the Saxon and Polish army, two of them, Franz Georg Jauch ( b. 1681 ) and Heinrich Georg Jauch ( b. 1709 ), serving as lieutenant colonels – colonels in relation to the other regiments ( Linienregimenter – in the Royal Guard of King Augustus II the Strong and King Augustus III of Poland.

For much of the previous century the borough was " managed " for the government by the Holmes family, meaning that ministers could generally secure the election of their favoured candidates, but often only at the expense of considerable " gratuities " to the voters – in 1754, this apparently amounted to a payment of £ 600 for each candidate.

Claude François de Malet was born in Dôle ( Jura ) to an aristocratic family on June 28, 1754.

The house remained within the family until 1754, when it was acquired by Dudley Tyler for use as a tavern, which use continued under Solomon Nelson who purchased the property in 1767.

In 1754 Cust inherited the Brownlow estates on the death of his maternal uncle Lord Tyrconnel.

She died in 1754 and her estates passed to Sir Hugh Smithson, husband of her only daughter Elizabeth, and subsequently Duke of Northumberland.

Legge took the additional name of Bilson on succeeding to the estates of a relative, Thomas Bettersworth Bilson, in 1754.

He was Member of Parliament for Elgin Burghs from 1747 to 1754, and carried bills for the abolition of heritable jurisdictions, wardholding and for annexation of forfeited estates to the Crown.

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