1733 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1733 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (until 7 May); George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley (from 14 June) ^{[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 (from 21 June)
• 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 Sherlock ^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris ^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner (from 23 January) ^{[6] [7]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett ^[8]

Events

• 21 June - The post of Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire is combined with that of Custos Rotulorum of Denbighshire. ^[9]
• 29 November - Charles Talbot is appointed Lord Chancellor. ^[10]
• 5 December - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, is raised to the peerage.
• date unknown
  • Legal proceedings in the Welsh courts to be conducted in the English language.
  • John Myddelton, politician, inherits the estates of his brother Robert, including Chirk Castle. ^[11]

Arts and literature

New books

• "Gwinfrid Shones" (popular ballad) ^[12]
• William Wynn writes his first poem, while a student at Oxford. ^[13]

Births

• March - John Lloyd, Rector of Caerwys, antiquary (died 1793) ^[14]

Deaths

• 22 January - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, about 66 ^[15]
• 2 February - Robert Price, judge, 80 ^[16]
• 28 February - John Morgan, poet, 45 ^[17]
• 7 May - George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 66/67 ^[18]
• June/July - Michael Pritchard, poet, 24 ^[19]
• date unknown - Robert Myddelton, owner of the Myddelton estates ^[11]

References

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2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
3. 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.
4. E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (23 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN   978-0-521-56350-5.
5. Thomas, Lawrence. "Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 3 October 2021.
6. Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
7. Courtney, William Prideaux (1898). "Tanner, Thomas (1674-1735)"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
8. "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
9. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
10. John Campbell Baron Campbell (1857). Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV. John Murray. p. 136.
11. A. H. Dodd. "Sir THOMAS MYDDELTON (c.1624-1663), 1st bart.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
12. Millson, Cecilia (1986), Old Berkshire Tales, Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books, ISBN   0-905392-69-8, p31
13. Wiliam, Dafydd Wyn (2004). "Wynn, William (bap. 1709, d. 1760)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press . Retrieved 10 March 2009.
14. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "LLOYD, JOHN (1733–1793)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2008.
15. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 3094
16. William Llewelyn Davies. "PRICE, ROBERT (1655-1733), judge". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
17. Edwards, Huw M. (2004). "Morgan, John (1688–1733/4)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press . Retrieved 10 April 2008.
18. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Cholmondeley, George"  . Dictionary of National Biography . 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
19. Moelwyn Idwal Williams. "Pritchard, Michael (c.1709-1733), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.