1755 in Wales

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Events from the year 1755 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 – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth ^[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 – George Rice ^[4]
• 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 (until 13 February); Richard Newcome (from 13 April) ^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond ^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys ^[8]

Events

• Following the death of his wife in this year, Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) goes to live at the home of Madam Bridget Bevan.
• The Brecknockshire Agricultural Society is formed.

Arts and literature

New books

• Rules of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion are published. ^[9]

Music

• Morgan Rhys – Golwg o Ben Nebo, ar Wlad yr Addewid (collection of hymns) ^[10]

Births

July:Sarah Siddons

• 22 February – Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (died 1843)
• 9 May – Wilmot Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Lisburne, owner of the Trawsgoed estate (died 1820) ^[11]
• 5 July – Sarah Siddons, actress (d. 1831) ^[12]
• 14 October – Thomas Charles of Bala, clergyman (died 1814) ^[13]
• 21 October – Caleb Hillier Parry, Welsh-descended physician (died 1822)
• 18 November – Rev. William Jones (died 1821) ^[14]

Deaths

• 13 February – Edward Cresset, Bishop of Llandaff, 57 ^{[15] [16]}
• 30 June – Edward Wynne, lawyer and landowner ^[17]
• 12 July – Zachariah Williams, inventor, 81 ^[18]
• date unknown – John Owen, chancellor of Bangor

References

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3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN   9780806313146.
4. "Rice, George"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
5. Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
6. "Newcome, Richard (NWCM718R2)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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. "Our History". Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
10. John Julian (1892). A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations. C. Scribner's Sons. p.  959.
11. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Vaughan, Wilmot"  . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
12. Cecil John Layton Price. "Siddons, Sarah (1755-1831), actress". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 2 May 2019.
13. Thomas, J. E. (1985). International biography of adult education. Nottingham: University of Nottingham. Dept. of Adult Education. p. 93. ISBN   9781850410010.
14. Jenkins, Robert Thomas (1959). "Jones, William (1755–1821), Evangelical cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
15. Salopian Shreds and Patches. 1877. p. 38.
16. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Cressett, Edward"  . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
17. Jones, Evan David. "WYNN family, of Bodewryd, Anglesey". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
18. James Boswell (1807). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. W. Andrews and L. Blake. pp. 215–.