1735 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1735 to Wales and its people.
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 – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos[1]
- Bishop of Bangor – Charles Cecil (from 15 January)[4]
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris[5]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner (until 14 December)[6][7]
- Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett[8]
Events[edit]
- 29 January – The Kemeys baronetcy of Cefn Mabli becomes extinct on the death of Sir Charles Kemeys, 4th Baronet.[9] His property at Cefn Mably is inherited by Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet.
- 20 April – Religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival.[10]
- September – Griffith Hughes records in his diary that he has broken his "knee pan" while travelling in Pennsylvania on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
- date unknown – Swansea-born Beau Nash appoints himself Master of Ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells, where a public house is later named after him.[11]
Arts and literature[edit]
New books[edit]
- Lewis Morris – Tlysau yr Hen Oesoedd
Births[edit]
- 1 March – John Price, librarian (died 1813)
- 24 June – Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis, posthumous daughter of Lord Edward Herbert (died 1786)[12]
- July – Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, peeress (died 1793)
Deaths[edit]
- 5 April – Sir Edward Stradling, 5th Baronet, MP for Cardiff and Sheriff of Glamorgan, 62[13]
- July – John Ellis, antiquarian, 61
- 14 December – Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St Asaph, 61[7]
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.
- ^ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 108.
- ^ Thomas, Lawrence. "Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
- ^ a b Courtney, William Prideaux (1898). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Kemeys and Kemeys-Tynte family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ Richard Bennett. "The Early Life of Howell Harris". The Revival Library. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ^ Phil Carradice (17 October 2011). "Beau Nash, the Welsh dandy". BBC – Wales History. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
- ^ "Stradling family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.