1735 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1735 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For Great Britain incumbents, see 1734 in Great Britain § Incumbents.

• 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

• 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

New books

• Lewis Morris – Tlysau yr Hen Oesoedd

Births

• 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

• 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

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
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. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 108.
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 . Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
8. "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
9. "Kemeys and Kemeys-Tynte family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
10. Richard Bennett. "The Early Life of Howell Harris". The Revival Library. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
11. Phil Carradice (17 October 2011). "Beau Nash, the Welsh dandy". BBC – Wales History. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
12. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
13. "Stradling family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.