1736 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1736 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

For Great Britain incumbents, see 1736 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 ^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris ^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox (from 4 July) ^{[6] [7] [8]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett ^[9]

Events

• 17 April - Frederick, Prince of Wales, marries Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London. ^[10]
• 4 July - Isaac Maddox is consecrated Bishop of St Asaph. Maddox continues to reside in south-east England and rarely visits the diocese. ^[11]
• 28 July - John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, becomes Dean of Wells Cathedral in succession to Isaac Maddox. ^[12]
• Thomas Frye paints the Prince of Wales for the Worshipful Company of Saddlers. ^[13]
• date unknown
  • Sixty soldiers are drowned after their vessel is wrecked on the Wolves rocks near Flat Holm; the incident leads to the building of a lighthouse on the island. ^[14]
  • Howell Harris opens a school.
  • Fortunatus Wright marries Mary, daughter of William Bulkeley, in Dublin.

Arts and literature

New books

• Rees Ellis - "A Summer Carol" ^[15]
• Anthony Ellys - A Plea for the Sacramental Test as best Security for the Church established, and very conducive to the Welfare of the State ^[16]
• John Reynolds - Heraldry Displayed ^[17]

Births

• 6 July - Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, soldier and politician, of Welsh ancestry (d. 1802)
• 10 July - David Jones, Church of England priest and an early supporter of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism (d. 1810)
• 31 August - David Ellis, clergyman, poet and transcriber of manuscripts (d. 1795) ^[18]
• 22 October - John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (d. 1769)
• date unknown
  • Charles Morgan, politician (d. 1787)
  • Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician (d. 1807) ^[19]

Deaths

• June - Edward Prideaux Gwyn, about 38 ^[20]
• November? - Griffith Wynn, translator, about 76 ^[21]
• 22 November - Thomas Lewis, politician, owner of The Van estate, 56/57 ^[22]
• date unknown - Edward Kemys, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, about 43 ^[23]

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. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
7. Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
8. Courtney, William Prideaux (1898). "Tanner, Thomas (1674-1735)"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
9. "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
10. The Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland and the Colonies: For the Year .... 1833. 1833. p. 4.
11. Paul de Rapin-Thoyras (1747). The History of England. J. and P. Knapton. p. 282.
12. Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1914). Reports. p. 531.
13. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Katharine Baetjer (2009). British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 54. ISBN   978-1-58839-348-7.
14. Chaplin, Captain W.R. (1960). The History of Flat Holm Lighthouse. Reprinted from the American Neptune V. XX.
15. Nansi Ceridwen Jones. "Ellis, Rees (fl. 1714), bard". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
16. William Thomas Lowndes (1842). British Librarian; Or, Book-collector's Guide. Whittaker. p. 1142.
17. Walter Thomas Morgan. "Reynolds, John (fl. 1739), antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
18. Jenkins, David. "Ellis, David (1736-1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
19. "WYNN, Thomas (1736-1807), of Glynnllivon, Caern. ". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
20. "GWYN, Edward Prideaux (?1698-1736), of Llansannor, Glam. and Forde Abbey, Dorset". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
21. William Llewelyn Davies. "WYNN, GRIFFITH (1669?-1736), cleric and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
22. "LEWIS, Thomas (c.1679-1736), of Soberton, Hants". History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). Retrieved 9 August 2018.
23. "KEMYS, Edward (c.1693-1736), of Pertholey, Mon". History of Parliament. Retrieved 21 February 2019.