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Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) â George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley^[1]^[2]
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton^[3]
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Thomas Morgan^[1]
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â vacant until 1755
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â William Perry^[1]

Bishop of Bangor â Matthew Hutton (until 10 December)^[4]
Bishop of Llandaff â John Gilbert^[5]^[6]
Bishop of St Asaph â Samuel Lisle^[7]
Bishop of St Davids â 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, Wikipedia Library access 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 (1747â1821)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9298. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access 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.

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