1747 in Wales

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Events from the year 1747 in Wales.

Incumbents

For Great Britain incumbents, see 1747 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 – William Perry[1]

• Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton (until 10 December)[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

• August - In the general election, William Morgan of Tredegar Park becomes MP for Monmouthshire.
• date unknown
  • Construction of the Usk Bridge (Usk), designed by William Edwards, begins.
  • Portrait-painter William Williams relocates to Philadelphia.
  • A Quaker meeting house is established at Quakers Friars in Bristol, the burial place of Llywelyn ap Dafydd.
  • James Relly reports on his missionary tour to Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire, and Birmingham.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Boydell - The Bridge Book

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns)

Births

• January - Richard Fenton, poet and author (died 1821)[9]
• 10 March - Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams), antiquarian, poet and literary forger (died 1826)[10]
• 5 April - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet (2nd creation) (died 1828)[11]
• 6 April - Moses Griffith, artist (died 1819)[12]

Deaths

• February - Walter Lloyd, lawyer and politician, 68[13]
• 9 April - John Myddelton, landowner and politician, 61[14]
• 21 July - Robert Clavering, former Bishop of Llandaff, 70/71[15]
• probable - David Lloyd, clergyman and translator

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. Roberts, Brynley F. (2004). "Fenton, Richard (1747–1821)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9298. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
10. "Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826". Archives Wales. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
11. George Edward Cokayne (1900). Complete baronetage: Volume V. W. Pollard & Company. p. 172.
12. J. Lloyd-Johnes (1979). "Moses Griffith". National Library of Wales Journal. Council of the National Library of Wales: 241.
13. "LLOYD, Walter (?1678-1747), of Peterwell, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
14. "MYDDELTON, John (1685-1747), of Chirk Castle, Denb. | History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 8 October 2021.
15. W. Percy Hedley (1968). Northumberland Families. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. p. 179.