Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).

* 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.

* 1787 – William Etty, English painter ( d. 1849 )

Withering wrote two more editions of this work in 1787 and 1792, in collaboration with fellow Lunar Society member Jonathan Stokes, and after his death his son ( also William ) published four more.

* May 30 – William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man ( b. 1787 )

When William V arrived in Schoonhoven in 1787, after the authority of the stadholders had been restored, the church bells are said to have played the Wilhelmus continuously.

* April 3 – William Watson, English physician and scientist ( d. 1787 )

In 1787, through his wealthy patron William Pulteney, he became Surveyor of Public Works in Shropshire.

It was named in 1787 by the maritime fur trader Charles William Barkley, captain of the Imperial Eagle, for Juan de Fuca, the Greek navigator who sailed in a Spanish expedition in 1592 to seek the fabled Strait of Anián.

Due to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War that went disastrously for the Dutch, the Patriot party staged a revolt against the authoritarian regime of stadtholder William V that was struck down through the intervention of William's brother-in-law Frederick William II of Prussia in June 1787.

This venerable title ( clearly chosen for sentimental reasons ) had little connection with the former office of the States of Holland ; as a matter of fact, the new office more resembled that of Stadtholder, though even William V, after 1787, had not possessed the powers Schimmelpenninck was to wield.

In 1787, William Bligh was appointed Captain of the HMS Bounty, and was instructed to proceed to the South Pacific for this task.

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

Houston Street is named for William Houstoun, who was a delegate from State of Georgia to the Continental Congress from 1784 through 1786 and to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.

Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, Oberon is named after the mythical king of the fairies who appears as a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Oberon was discovered by William Herschel on January 11, 1787 ; on the same day he discovered Uranus's largest moon, Titania.

* Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton – Paragon ( 1786 ), Spadille ( 1787 ), Young Flora ( 1788 ), Tartar ( 1792 ), Petronius ( 1808 ), Ashton ( 1809 ), William ( 1814 )

But his brother-in-law, King Frederick William II of Prussia, came to the aid of William V and on 18 September 1787, Dordrecht capitulated to Prussian troops.

It was named for William Grayson, delegate to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787 and one of the first two U. S. Senators from Virginia.

William Jowett, a 19th century missionary and author, was born at Newington in 1787, as was the visionary English artist Samuel Palmer in 1805.

* William Rudolph Smith ( 1787 – 1868 ), politician in the states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin

* William Smith ( scholar ) ( 1711 – 1787 ), classical scholar and Dean of Chester

On 12 May 1787 Wilberforce brought forward the first of many motions in the House of Commons.

Known as the " Saints ", the alliance was led by the best known of the anti-slave trade campaigners, William Wilberforce, who had taken on the cause of abolition in 1787 after having read the evidence that Thomas Clarkson had amassed against the trade.

On Sunday 28 October 1787, Wilberforce wrote in his diary: " God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

In 1787 Wilberforce was introduced to James Ramsay and Thomas Clarkson at Teston, as well as meeting the growing group of supporters of abolition, which also included Edward Eliot, Hannah More, the evangelical writer and philanthropist and Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London.

Perhaps the best known committee member of the new non-denominational abolition society, founded in 1787, was William Wilberforce, who, unlike its Quaker members, was eligible as an Anglican to be elected to, and sit in, the House of Commons.

In 1787 the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was formed, with 9 of the 12 founder members being Quakers ; William Wilberforce, an early supporter of the society, went on to push through the 1807 Slave Trade Act, striking a major blow against the transatlantic slave trade.

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

Thomas Somers and the Cabot Brothers founded the Beverly Cotton Manufactory in 1787, the first cotton mill in America, the largest cotton mill of its era, and a significant milestone in the research and development of cotton mills in the future.

In 1848, the General Conference stated, “ when the Church has collected ... a great population born within bosom, she cannot fulfill her high mission unless she takes measure to prevent this population from being withdrawn from under her care in the period of its youth .” The first two American bishops of the Methodist Church, Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, opened a preparatory school in Abingdon, Maryland in 1787.

The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).

The Industrial Revolution began in America in 1787 when Thomas Somers reproduced textile machine plans he imported from England.

Image: Thomas Gainsborough 023. jpg | Self-Portrait ( 1787 )

Image: Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish. jpg | Her Grace Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, ( 1787 )

Governor Thomas McKean and his son, Thomas McKean, Jr. ( Charles Willson Peale, 1787 )

* September 10 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator ( b. 1787 )

Flax mills for spinning flaxen yarn were invented by John Kendrew and Thomas Porthouse of Darlington in 1787.

In 1787, he came into contact with Thomas Clarkson and a group of anti-slave-trade activists, including Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton.

In 1787 Thomas Jefferson, who was then ambassador to France, wrote to James Madison proposing that the U. S. Constitution, then under consideration by the States, be amended to include " trial by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land opposed the law of admiralty and not by the laws of Nations not by the law of admiralty ".

Bell House in College Road was designed in 1787 for Thomas Wright, a stationer and later Lord Mayor of the City of London.

General Thomas was born in 1787 and died in 1879.

Thomas Say ( 1787 – 1834 ), a friend of Maclure, was an entomologist and conchologist.

File: Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish. jpg | The Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough, 1787.

* Susannah Brooke, sister ( 1762 – 1852 ), wife of Thomas Townley-Parker ( 1760 – 94 ), 1787 -?

During 1787 he wrote three letters on John Hawkins's Life of Johnson for the Gentleman's Magazine, which were reprinted by Thomas Kidd in his Tracts and Criticisms of Porson, and in a volume of Porson's Correspondence.

James Madison made this recommendation in a letter to Thomas Jefferson of 24 October 1787, which summarized the thesis of The Federalist # 10: " Divide et impera, the reprobated axiom of tyranny, is under certain qualifications, the only policy, by which a republic can be administered on just principles.

Thomas Gage ( 1719 or 1720 – 2 April 1787 ) was a British general, best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as military commander in the early days of the American Revolution.

In 1787 Congress prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory, after a proposal by Thomas Jefferson to abolish it in all the territories failed by one vote.

Thomas Stone ( 1743 – October 5, 1787 ) was an American planter who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland.