1774 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw ^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn ^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice ^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart ^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan ^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Robert Clive (until 2 November) ^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet ^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer ^{[11] [2]}

• Bishop of Bangor – John Ewer (until 28 October) ^[12] John Moore ^[13]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington ^[14]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley ^[15]
• Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (until 2 June); James Yorke (from 26 June) ^[16]

Events

• July - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales. ^[17]
• unknown dates
  • John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham. ^[18]
  • An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff. ^[19]
  • Construction work is completed on Morris Castle, "Wales's first block of flats". ^[20]
  • Edward Jones, an "exhorter" at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, and a lay preacher, begins holding Welsh-language services in Cock Lane, Smithfield, London. ^[21]

Arts and literature

New books

• Hugh Hughes - Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (translation of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life
• Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis ^[22]
• Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - Cydymaith yr Hwsmon

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn - Ychydig Hymnau (hymns)

Paintings

• Thomas Jones - The Bard
• Richard Wilson - Llyn y Cau, Cadair Idris

Births

• 16 January - Daniel Evans, independent minister (died 1835)
• May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841)
• 24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844) ^[23]
• date unknown - Sir John Waters, military commander (died 1842) ^[24]

Deaths

• 13 January - John Pugh Pryse, politician, 34 ^[25]
• 4 July - William Price, High Sheriff of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire, 84
• 28 October - John Ewer, Bishop of Bangor, about 70 ^[26]
• date unknown
  • Rowland Jones, philologist, 57 ^[27]
  • Dafydd Nicolas, poet

References

1. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
2. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
3. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
4. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
5. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
6. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
7. "Rice, George"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
8. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN   9780806313146.
9. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
10. The Montgomeryshire Collections. Clifton Press. 1972. p. 116.
11. Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
12. John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
13. Tobias Smollett, ed. (1775). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 159.
14. "Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff) (CCEd Appointment ID 275358)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835 . Retrieved 4 September 2014.
15. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
16. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
17. Lynch, Jack (2011). Samuel Johnson in context. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 320. ISBN   9780521190107.
18. Day, Lance (1996). Biographical dictionary of the history of technology. London New York: Routledge. p. 1312. ISBN   9780415193993.
19. "A Short History of Cardiff". www.localhistories.org. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
20. Davies, John (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press. p. 845. ISBN   9780708319536.
21. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Edward (1741?–after 1806)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 22 October 2021.
22. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Jones, Dafydd (1711-1777), hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 22 October 2021.
23. Evan David Jones. "Shadrach, Azariah (1774–1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 22 October 2021.
24. Griffiths, Barrie (1999). A Spy for Wellington: Sir John William Waters (1774-1842), Cefn Cribwr's Forgotten Hero.
25. "PRYSE, John Pugh (1739-74), of Gogerddan, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
26.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "Ewer, John". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
27. William Rowlands. "Jones, Rowland (1722-1774), philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 22 October 2021.