1750 in Wales
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Events from the year 1750 in Wales.
Incumbents[edit]
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry[1]
- Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce[4]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset[5]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond[6]
- Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor[7]
Events[edit]
- 9 January – At the age of 25, Henry Herbert the younger succeeds to his father's earldom of Pembroke.[8]
- "Disruption of 1750": Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland quarrel, resulting in a lasting split in the Welsh Methodist movement.[9]
- William Thomas begins his diary.[10]
Arts and literature[edit]
New books[edit]
English language[edit]
- Griffith Hughes - Natural History of Barbados[11]
Welsh language[edit]
- David Jones - Egluryn Rhyfedd[12]
- Daniel Rowland - Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un Cyfeiliornus
Births[edit]
- June - William Morgan, actuary (died 1833)[13]
- 14 November - Edward Williams, clergyman and academic (died 1813)[14]
- 11 December - Isaac Shelby, Welsh-descended American politician (born in US; died 1826)[15]
- unknown date - Evan Davies, Independent minister (died 1806)[16]
Deaths[edit]
- 9 January - Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 56[8]
- May - Sir Samuel Pennant, Lord Mayor of London[17]
- 22 May - Matthew Pritchard, Roman Catholic bishop, 81[18]
- 29 November - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel[19]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
- ^ Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
- ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,. University Press. p. 255.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 305.
- ^ a b Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1825. p. 111.
- ^ Gareth Elwyn Jones; Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology Gareth Jones (28 October 1994). Modern Wales: A Concise History. Cambridge University Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-521-46945-6.
- ^ William Thomas (1995). The Diary of William Thomas of Michaelston-super-Ely, Near St. Fagans, Glamorgan, 1762-1795. South Wales Record Society and South Glamorgan County Council Libraries & Arts Department. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-9525961-0-3.
- ^ Friedrich August Flückiger; Daniel Hanbury (1874). Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met with in Great Britain and British India. Macmillan. pp. 569.
- ^ Caernarvonshire Historical Society (1986). Transactions: (Trafodion). p. 89.
- ^ The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. 1934. p. 154.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Powell, William Stevens (1994). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Vol. 5, P-S. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2100-8.
- ^ Williams, Griffith John. "Evan Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- ^ Thomas Richards. "PENNANT (and DOUGLAS-PENNANT) family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caerns.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Connell, Joan (1984). The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780-1850 : a study in internal politics. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 204. ISBN 9780871691583.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "MANSEL family, of Oxwich, Penrice, and Margam abbey, Glam.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.