1757 in Wales

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Events from the year 1757 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 – Howell Gwynne ^{[5] [1]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton ^[6]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome ^[7]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond ^[8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys ^[9]

Events

• George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, takes out a lease on Esgair-mwyn lead mine. ^[10]
• Hirwaun ironworks begins coke smelting. ^[11]
• Daines Barrington is appointed judge of the Merioneth, Caernarvonshire and Anglesey circuit (Court of Great Sessions). ^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• John Dyer – The Fleece ^[13]
• Edward Evans – translation of S. Bourne's Catechism
• Elizabeth Griffith – A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances ^[14]
• Joseph Harris – An Essay Upon Money and Coins
• Joshua Thomas – Tystiolaeth y Credadyn ^[15]

Music

• Elis Roberts – "Jeils"
• William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau Duwiol ^[16]

Births

• 12 September – John Williams, lawyer and writer on legal topics (died 1810)
• date unknown – Thomas Foley, admiral (died 1833) ^[17]
• probable – Richard Jones, Ruthin priest and writer (died 1814)

Deaths

• 23 March – Thomas Herring, former Bishop of Bangor, 64 ^[18]
• 16 July – Richard Lloyd, politician, about 54 ^[19]
• 16 September – Savage Mostyn, naval officer, 40s
• December – John Dyer, poet, 56 ^[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. 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. Namier, Lewis. "Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
6. John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
7. "Newcome, Richard (NWCM718R2)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
8. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
9. "Ellys, Anthony"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
10. National Library of Wales Journal. Council of the National Library of Wales. 1999. p. 133.
11. Ince, Laurence (1993). The South Wales iron industry, 1750-1885. Great Britain: Ferric. p. 33. ISBN   9780951816516.
12. Stephens, Meic (1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford Oxfordshire New York: Oxford University Press. p. 33. ISBN   9780192115867.
13. Jack Lynch; John T. Lynch (2016). The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800. Oxford University Press. p. 313. ISBN   978-0-19-960080-9.
14. Richard Griffith; Elizabeth Griffith (1761). A Series of Genuine Letters Between Henry and Frances. W. Johston.
15. 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.  445.
16. David Ceri Jones; Eryn Mant White (4 January 2012). The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811. University of Wales Press. pp. 138–. ISBN   978-0-7083-2502-5.
17. Tom Wareham, ‘Foley, Sir Thomas (1757–1833)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2007 accessed 9 March 2008 Oxford DNB - subscription required
18. Holtby, Robert T. (2004). "Herring, Thomas (1693–1757), archbishop of Canterbury" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13098.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
19. "LLOYD, Richard (c.1703-57), of Mabws, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
20. Shaw, Thomas B. A Complete Manual of English Literature. Ed. William Smith. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1872. 372. Print.