1756 in Wales

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Events from the year 1756 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 (until 13 January); Howell Gwynne (from 13 January)[5][1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce (until 4 June);[6] John Egerton (from 4 July)[7]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome[8]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond[9]
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys[10]

Events

• 5 January – An article appears in The New York Mercury, criticising the work of Lewis Evans in identifying boundaries in his General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America.[11]
• Spring – Completion of Britain's longest single-span bridge (at this date), William Edwards' Old Bridge, Pontypridd, over the River Taff, at the third (or fourth) attempt.[12]
• Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls at Aberdyfi.[13]

Arts and literature

New books

• Hugh Hughes – Cywydd Galarnadd am ynys Minorca...[14]
• Sion Kadwaladr – Einion a Gwenllian[15]

Music

• Elis Roberts – "Argulus"

Births

• January – Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda (died 1826)[16]
• 7 June – Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (died 1831)
• 23 June – Thomas Jones, mathematician (died 1807)[17]
• 4 July – John Evans, surgeon and cartographer (died 1846)
• 18 November – Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (died 1837)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Jones of Denbigh, minister and author (died 1820)[18]
  • Simon Lloyd, Methodist preacher (died 1836)

Deaths

• 12 June – Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?[11]
• 5 August – Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, landowner and politician, 56[19]
• 14 September – William Parry, antiquarian and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 69[20]
• 23 September – John Talbot, judge and MP for Brecon, about 43/44[21]
• 28 October – Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, 47[22]

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. Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
7. John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
8. "Newcome, Richard (NWCM718R2)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
9. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
10. "Ellys, Anthony" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
11. Mary Gwyneth Lewis. "Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
12. Ted Ruddock (1 January 2000). Masonry Bridges, Viaducts and Aqueducts. Ashgate Variorum. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-86078-751-8.
13. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Lewis (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-1765), poet and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
14. Bethan M. Jenkins (15 March 2017). Writing Wales in English: Between Wales and England -: Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century. University of Wales Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-78683-031-9.
15. Gruffydd Glyn Evans. "Kadwaladr, Sion fl. 1750-1765, writer of ballads and interludes". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
16. Lloyd, John Edward; Jenkins, R.T. (1958). The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Down to 1940. Cardiff: William Lewis. p. 307.
17. "Thomas Jones (JNS774T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
18. Thomas, Owen (2002). The atonement controversy : in Welsh theological literature & debate, 1707-1841. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust. p. 151. ISBN 9780851518169.
19. "WYNNE, Sir George (1700-56), of Leeswood Hall, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
20. Cooper, Thompson (2004). "Parry, William (bap. 1687, d. 1756)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
21. "TALBOT, Hon. John (c.1712-56), of Lincoln's Inn". Retrieved 16 June 2016.
22. "Somerset, Lord Charles Noel (1709-56)". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 16 April 2019.