1739 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1739 to Wales and its people.

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 – Thomas Herring ^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson (from 18 February) ^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox ^{[6] [7]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett ^[8]

Events

• March - Diarist William Bulkeley of Brynddu is a bearer at the funeral of Richard Bulkeley, 5th Viscount Bulkeley, and leaves an account in his diary. ^[9]
• 20 May - The roof of St Mary's Church, Swansea, collapses into the nave just before a Sunday morning service; the congregation is waiting outside for the officiating priest, who is running late. ^[10]
• date unknown
  • Samuel and Nathaniel Buck tour Wales to produce the first of their prints of the country, following on from their prints of England.
  • A new parish church is completed at Willington Worthenbury near Wrexham, designed by Richard Trubshaw. ^[11]

Arts and literature

New books

• Rowland Ellis - A Salutation to the Britains (2nd London edition) ^[12]
• John Reynolds - The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry

Births

• January - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (died 1810) ^[13]
• 14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1767)
• 3 April - Hugh Davies, botanist (died 1821)
• date unknown - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (died 1810) ^[14]

Deaths

• 5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65 ^[15]
• 6 June - John Griffith, MP for Caernarvonshire, about 52 ^[16]

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. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. 1939. p. 142.
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. "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
9. Thomas Richards. "BULKELEY, WILLIAM (1691-1760), squire and diarist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 26 June 2018.
10. St. Mary's vestry book. "St. Mary's Church". Explore Gower. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
11. "St Deiniol's Church, Worthenbury (307972)". Coflein. RCAHMW . Retrieved 26 June 2018.
12. Robert (Bob) Owen. "ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
13. Lake, A. Cynfael. "Edwards, Thomas [called Twm o'r Nant] (1738–1810), poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62647.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
14. Evans, Chris (1990). The letterbook of Richard Crawshay, 1788-1797. Cardiff: South Wales Record Society. p. IX. ISBN   9780950867656.
15. Norgate, G. Le G.; Clayton, M. E. (May 2007). "Mostyn, Sir Roger, third baronet (1673–1739)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press . Retrieved 6 November 2008.
16. "GRIFFITH, John (?1687-1739), of Cefnamwlch, Caern". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 October 2018.