1740 in Wales
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Events from the year 1740 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 – 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 – Thomas Herring[4]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson (until 21 October);[5] John Gilbert (from 28 December)[6]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox[7][8]
- Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett[9]
Events[edit]
- 6 November - Charles Wesley records in his diary a visit to the Glascott family home at Cardiff.[10]
- date unknown - William Williams Pantycelyn becomes a deacon[11] and is appointed curate to Theophilus Evans at Llanfaes.[12]
Arts and literature[edit]
New books[edit]
- John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
- Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
- Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed[13]
Music[edit]
- Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)[14]
Births[edit]
- 23 February - Benjamin Evans, Congregational minister and author (died 1821)[15]
- 26 December - John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), musician (died 1821)
- date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (died 1821)
Deaths[edit]
- 3 April - Thomas Dominic Williams, Roman Catholic bishop, 78/9[16]
- 7 August - Jane Brereton, poet, 55[17]
- 3 October - Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, politician, 76[18]
- 20 October - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?[19]
- date unknown
- Enoch Francis, Baptist
- John Morris, youngest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 34 (died at sea during an attack on Cartagena)[20]
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.
- ^ Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. 1939. p. 142.
- ^ "Gilbert, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10692. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
- ^ Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
- ^ "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Daniel Williams. "GLASCOTT, CRADOCK (1743-1831), an Evangelical cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ^ Evan David Evans (1976). A History of Wales, 1660-1815. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-0624-6.
- ^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ^ Gwyn Jones (1959). "Williams, Zachariah (1673-1755), medical practitioner, and inventor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ Llyfr o hymneu o waith amryw awdwyr. 1740.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Rhagfyr; 1740-1821), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- ^ "Bishop Thomas Dominic Williams, O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- ^ Turner, Katherine, Brereton [née Hughes], Jane (1685–1740), poet, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
- ^ "DEVEREUX, Price (c.1664-1740), of Vaynor Park, Mont". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
- ^ "WILLIAMS, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (c.1665-1740), of Glascoed, Llansilin, Denb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, JOHN (1706-1740), sailor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2018.