2 April - The British government buys John Julius Angerstein's art collection for £60,000 for the purpose of establishing a National Gallery in London which opens to the public in his former townhouse on 10 May.
John Julius Angerstein (1732–1823), London merchant and patron of the fine arts
John Julius Angerstein (1732–1823), London merchant, Lloyd's under-writer, and patron of the fine arts
After a number of knife attacks on women by the so-called "London Monster", Angerstein promised a reward of £100 for capture of the perpetrator.
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From the sale in London of the French Orleans Collection he bought The Raising of Lazarus by Sebastiano del Piombo and other works.
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In 1771 Angerstein married Anna Crockett (widow of Charles Crockett and daughter of Henry Muilman (1700–1772) a South Sea Company director, banker, Danish consul in London and Russia Company consul, and Anne née Darnall) at St Peter-le-Poer, Old Broad Street.
Philanthropist John Julius Angerstein promised a reward of £100 for capture of the perpetrator.
He was the son of John Angerstein (1773–1858) MP for Camelford, 1796 and Greenwich, 1835 and grandson of John Julius Angerstein.
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Other founding Governors included George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth as President, the Marquess of Stafford, Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, William Holwell Carr, John Julius Angerstein, Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet, Sir Thomas Bernard, 3rd Baronet, and others.
The effort attracted some prominent figures from London's financial elite: George Peters, Governor of the Bank of England, Thomas Boddington, the noted philanthropist and slave owner, John Julius Angerstein, General Robert Melville.
It is the closest station to Woodlands House (once the home of John Julius Angerstein and later an art gallery and history archives centre), and is also close to the southern approach to the Blackwall Tunnel, a notorious traffic bottleneck.