The tower, which rises to, contains a bell dating from 1759 made by Thomas Bilbie of the Bilbie family.

It first saw the light of day on New Year's Eve 1759 sung by Samuel Thomas Champnes, grandson of John Weldon, in one of the first pantomimes, " Harlequin's Invasion ", at the Garrick Theatre.

Image: Thomas Gainsborough 017. jpg | Two Daughters with a Cat ( c. 1759 )

* May 11 – Thomas Cooper, American political philosopher ( b. 1759 )

* Sir Thomas Maitland ( 1759 – 1824 ) 1815 – 1823

Originally to be named Orange, it was named Corbin Town ( for Francis Corbin, a member of the governor's council and one of Granville's land agents ), and renamed Childsburgh ( in honor of Thomas Child, the attorney general for North Carolina from 1751 – 1760 and another one of Granville's land agents ) in 1759.

Part of the Waldo Patent, it was first settled about 1759, the year Governor Thomas Pownall completed Fort Pownall on Fort Point.

One such was Thomas Blount ( 1759 – 1812 ), whose handsome plantation house " The Grove " has been restored and is open for tours on a daily basis.

* William Joseph Williams ( 1759 – 1823 ), his son, artist ; painted George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

Massinger's independent works were collected by Thomas Coxeter ( 4 vols., 1759, revised edition with introduction by Thomas Davies, 1779 ), by J. Monck Mason ( 4 vols., 1779 ), by William Gifford ( 4 vols., 1805, 1813 ), by Hartley Coleridge ( 1840 ), by Lt. Col. Cunningham ( 1867 ), and selections by Arthur Symons in the Mermaid Series ( 1887 – 9 ).

A landscape painter and novelist, Olivia Wilmot married John Thomas Serres, 1759 – 1825, and later, controversially, assumed the style of Princess Olivia of Cumberland.

He was declared insane in 1798 and was treated by Dr Thomas Munro ( 1759 – 1833 ), the chief physician to Bethlem Hospital and a specialist in mental disorders-Munro also treated King George III ( 1738 – 1820 ).

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

Wivenhoe House was designed for Isaac Rebow in 1759 by Thomas Reynolds ; the park itself was designed by Richard Woods.

* Thomas Cooper ( US politician ) ( 1759 – 1840 ), American educationalist and political philosopher

These were John Law ( 1745 – 1810 ), bishop of Elphin ; Thomas Law ( 1759 – 1834 ), who settled in the United States in 1793, and married, as his second wife, Eliza Custis, a granddaughter of Martha Washington ; and George Henry Law ( 1761 – 1845 ), bishop of Chester and of Bath and Wells.

Notable burials, in and around the church, include: Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis ( d. 1585 ), General James Wolfe ( d. 1759 ), English-born explorer of Canada Henry Kelsey ( d. 1724 ), and actress Lavinia Fenton ( 1760 ).

In 1759, Waldo accompanied the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Thomas Pownall, and his 400 men to help establish this site.

Thomas Keymer sees beyond the conventional Roman à clef interpretations to call it a work that reflects the wider geo-political world in the year of publication ( 1759 ): the year in which " Britain became master of the world ".

After her death in 1758 he married secondly Tryphena, daughter of Thomas Scawen, in 1759.

* Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester ( 1697 – 1759 )

In a treaty of 1752, however, Massachusetts laid claim to the entire Penobscot watershed, and in 1759 the Pownall Expedition, led by Governor Thomas Pownall, established Fort Pownall on Cape Jellison in what is now Stockton Springs.

Early skirmishes were followed by victory for the Afghans against the smaller Maratha garrisons in Northwest India and by 1759 Ahmad and his army had reached Lahore and were poised to confront the Marathas.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany, three pioneer physical educators – Johann Friedrich GutsMuths ( 1759 – 1839 ) and Friedrich Ludwig Jahn ( 1778 – 1852 ) – created exercises for boys and young men on apparatus they had designed that ultimately led to what is considered modern gymnastics.

The Jesuits had been expelled from Brasil ( 1754 ), Portugal ( 1759 ), France ( 1764 ), Spain and its colonies ( 1767 ) and Parma ( 1768 ).

In France a new leader, the Duc de Choiseul, had recently come to power and 1759 offered a duel between their rival strategies.

In 1759 an English authority estimated that each year a quarter of the prisoners had died from gaol fever.

In 1759, decades after the deaths of both Newton and Hooke, Alexis Clairaut, mathematical astronomer eminent in his own right in the field of gravitational studies, made his assessment after reviewing what Hooke had published on gravitation.

This in turn makes it understandable how in 1759, decades after the deaths of both Newton and Hooke, Alexis Clairaut, mathematical astronomer eminent in his own right in the field of gravitational studies, made his assessment after reviewing what Hooke had published on gravitation.

The name and genera were based on the order with the same name that had been described by Bernard de Jussieu in 1759.

# Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia ( 24 July 1759 – 10 January 1824 ) married Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este in 1789, had issue.

Empress Joséphine had the Belgian artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté ( 1759 – 1840 ) record her roses ( and lilies ), and prints of these works sell quite well, even today.

By 1759 the group had its own building on Byrd Creek.

Because of its occasional radical contents ( see " Contents " below ), the French government suspended the encyclopedia's privilège in 1759, but because it had many highly placed supporters, notably Malesherbes and Madame de Pompadour, work continued " in secret.

The house was built from 1759 to 1771 for Edwin Lascelles, whose family had bought the estate after making its fortune in the West Indies through Customs positions, slave trading and lending money to planters.

Established August 17, 1759 by Order in Council, Annapolis County took its name from the town of Annapolis Royal which had been named in honour of Queen Anne of Great Britain.

Previously, from August 17, 1759, when Nova Scotia was first divided into counties, this area had been part of Annapolis County.

Meanwhile the British army, left behind in Quebec after the fleet sailed at the end of October 1759, suffered from hunger, scurvy and the travails of living in a city that they had largely destroyed in the siege.

He therefore moved some 3, 800 men into the field, all he could muster, along with over twenty cannon, to the same position that Montcalm had occupied for the 1759 battle.

In 1759, Martha's dower share included at least 85 slaves ; she also would control any children they had, who became part of the dower.

Mannerheim's great-grandfather, Count Carl Erik Mannerheim ( 1759 – 1837 ), had held a number of offices in Finland's civil service during the early years of the autonomous Russian Grand Principality of Finland, including membership in the Senate, and served as the first Prime Minister of Finland ( formally the Vice Chairman of the Economic Department of the Senate-the Senate consisted of Economic Department, later the cabinet, and the Justice Dpt, later the Supreme Court, and the formal chairman of both was the Governor General as the acting head of state ).

In 1759, after having lived in Geneva less than two years, Voltaire had purchased the estate of Ferney in France, near the Swiss border.

First formalized by Professor William Farish ( 1759 – 1837 ), the concept of an isometric had existed in a rough empirical form for centuries.

Hastings ’ first wife, Mary, had died in 1759 and he planned to marry the Baroness once she had obtained a divorce from her husband.

On 6 October 1759, he abdicated in favour of his son Ferdinand ( Charles's eldest son Philip had learning difficulties and the second son, Charles, became the heir to the Spanish throne ).