1745 in Wales

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Events from the year 1745 in Wales .

Incumbents

For Great Britain incumbents, see 1745 in Great Britain § Incumbents.

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, 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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – vacant ^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton ^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert ^{[5] [6]}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle ^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor ^[8]

Events

• Following the failure of the Jacobite Rebellion, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is suspected of involvement and seeks protection from his father-in-law, Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort.

Arts and literature

New books

• Anonymous
  • An Expostulatory Epistle to the Welsh Knight..., etc ^[9]
  • An Apology for the Welsh Knight..., etc ^[9]

Music

• Ancient British Music, Part 2 (unpublisher) ^[10]

Births

• 13 January – Robert Jones, Rhoslan, writer (died 1829)
• 14 February – David Davis (Castellhywel), poet (died 1827) ^[11]
• 15 July – Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1819) ^[12]
• date unknown – Thomas Redmond, artist (died 1785) ^[13]

Deaths

• 22 October – William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis, 80 ^[14]
• date unknown – Erasmus Lewes, Anglican clergyman

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. Andrew Coltee Ducarel; Timothy Hutton; James Raine; Matthew Hutton (1843). The Correspondence of Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. J. B. Nichols and son. p. 41.
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. Browne Willis; Edward Edwards; Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1801). Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, Considerably Enlarged and Brought Down to the Present Time. John Painter. p. 154.
8. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 305.
9. Robert Phillimore; George Lyttelton (1845). Memoirs And Correspondence Of George, Lord Lyttelton, From 1734 To 1773. Ridgway. p. 2.
10. The Anglo-Welsh Review. Dock Leaves Press. 1980. p. 135.
11. White, Cathryn (2012). Welsh poetry of the French Revolution, 1789-1805. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 413. ISBN   9780708325292.
12. Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900). Herald Office. p. 142.
13. Thomas Mardy Rees (1912). Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527-1911). Welsh Publishing Company. p. 123.
14. Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Herbert, William (d.1745)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.