1741 in Wales

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Events from the year 1741 in Wales .

Incumbents

For Great Britain incumbents, see 1741 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 – Thomas Herring ^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert ^{[5] [6]}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox ^{[7] [8]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett ^[9]

Events

• June – In the general election, the seat of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet at Denbighshire is targeted by the government. Sir Watkin wins by 1352 to 933, but the sheriff, a member of the Salusbury family, disallows 594 of his votes and returns a cousin of Salusbury, John Myddelton of Chirk. Sir Watkin is elected for Montgomeryshire instead. ^[10]
• Carpenter Siarl Marc is converted and quickly becomes the most important Calvinistic Methodist exhorter in the Llyn peninsula.
• Lewis Morris resumes his survey of Welsh ports on behalf of the Navy Office.

Arts and literature

New books

• Evan Davies – Newyddion Mawr Oddiwrth y Ser (vol. 3) ^[11]

Music

• Morgan John Lewis – Hymnau Duwiol o Gasgliad Gwyr Eglwysig M.J. ac E.W.
• David Owen composes Dafydd y Garreg Wen on his deathbed, according to tradition

Births

• 27 January – Hester Thrale, diarist and friend of Dr Johnson (died 1821) ^[12]
• 20 August – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (died 1811) ^[13]
• 3 September – Owen Jones, antiquary (died 1814)

Deaths

• May – Isaac Carter, publisher ^[14]
• August – David Owen, 29 ("David of the White Rock"), harpist ^[15]
• date unknown
  • Wil Hopcyn, poet, 41?
  • Edward Owen, artist ^[16]
  • Robert Roberts, theologian, 61? ^[17]

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. "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.)
6. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. 1939. p. 142.
7. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
8. Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
9. "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
10. John Debrett (1824). The baronetage of England. p. 388.
11. "Davies, Evan". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 13 April 2016.
12. Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale). Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. pp.  33.
13. John Debrett (1840). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen. pp.  137.
14. William Llewelyn Davies. "CARTER, ISAAC (d. 1741), printer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
15. Robert David Griffith. "OWEN, DAVID ('Dafydd y Garreg Wen '; 1711/12-1741), harpist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
16. "Edward Owen's 'lost' self-portrait on show in Gwynedd". BBC News. 13 November 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
17. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Roberts, Robert (1680–1741), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 May 2008.