1754 in Wales

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Events from the year 1754 in Wales .

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 (until 26 August); ^[3] Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth (from 6 November) ^[4]
• 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 Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry ^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce ^[5]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset ^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond ^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys ^[8]

Events

• April–May – In the British general election, newly elected MPs include Robert Wynne at Caernarvon Boroughs and Benjamin Bathurst at Monmouth Boroughs.
• John Jenkin (Ioan Siengcin) opens a Welsh school at Nevern. ^[9]

Arts and literature

New books

• Richard Rees – Collected sermons, published by Philip Charles ^[10]
• Ben Simon (ed.) – Collected works of Dafydd ap Gwilym ^[11]
• Mêr Difinyddiaeth Iachus (second edition, with a preface by Morgan Jones) ^[12]

Music

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 2 ^[13]

Births

• 28 October – John Griffiths, medical practitioner and surgeon in the Royal Household (died 1822)
• 25 November – William Parry, minister and author (died 1819) ^[14]
• date unknown – Charles Hassall, surveyor (died 1814) ^[15]
• earliest likely year – Jane Cave, poet (died 1812) ^[16]

Deaths

• 10 January – Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83 ^[17]
• 20 February – John Owen, MP, about 52 ^[18]
• 17 May – Richard Herbert, politician, 49/50 ^[19]
• 26 August – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, 68 ^[20]

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. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN   9780806313146.
5. Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
6. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,. University Press. p. 255.
7. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
8. "Ellys, Anthony"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
9. Geraint Bowen. "Jenkin, John (Ioan Siengcin; 1716-1796), poet and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 29 March 2019.
10. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Rees, Richard (1707-1749), Arminian Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
11. "Simon, Ben". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
12. John Dyfnallt Owen. "Jones, Morgan (1717?-1780), Congregational minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
13. Gwilym Lleyn (1869). Cambrian bibliography: containing an account of the books printed in the Welsh language, or relating to Wales, from the year 1546 to the end of the eighteenth century; with biographical notices. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. pp.  440.
14. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Parry, William (1754-1819), Independent minister and tutor, and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
15. John Chapman (31 July 1992). A guide to parliamentary enclosures in Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 166. ISBN   978-0-7083-1111-0.
16. Roger Lonsdale; Roger H. Lonsdale (1990). Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. Oxford University Press. p. 373. ISBN   978-0-19-282775-3.
17. "LEWIS, Erasmus (1671-1754), of Abercothi, Carm. and St. James's, Westminster". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
18. Jacob Youde William Lloyd (1885). The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog: And the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd. T. Richards. p.  285.
19. "HERBERT, Richard (1704-54)". History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). Retrieved 12 December 2018.
20. "POWLETT, Charles II, Marquess of Winchester (1685-1754), of Hackwood, nr. Basingstoke, Hants". History of Parliament Online (1690–1715). Retrieved 3 October 2018.