Events from the year 1747 in Wales.
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Incumbents
edit- 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]
Events
edit- 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
editNew books
edit- John Boydell - The Bridge Book
Music
edit- William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns)
Births
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.)
- ^ Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. 1939. p. 142.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 305.
- ^ 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.)
- ^ "Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826". Archives Wales. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ George Edward Cokayne (1900). Complete baronetage: Volume V. W. Pollard & Company. p. 172.
- ^ J. Lloyd-Johnes (1979). "Moses Griffith". National Library of Wales Journal. Council of the National Library of Wales: 241.
- ^ "LLOYD, Walter (?1678-1747), of Peterwell, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ "MYDDELTON, John (1685-1747), of Chirk Castle, Denb. | History of Parliament Online". Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ W. Percy Hedley (1968). Northumberland Families. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. p. 179.