1756 in Wales
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Events from the year 1756 in Wales.
See also:List of years in Wales
Timeline of Welsh history
Timeline of Welsh history
- 1756 in
- Great Britain
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) â George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth[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 George Rice[4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â William Perry (until 13 January); Howell Gwynne (from 13 January)[5][1]
- Bishop of Bangor â Zachary Pearce (until 4 June);[6] John Egerton (from 4 July)[7]
- Bishop of Llandaff â Richard Newcome[8]
- Bishop of St Asaph â Robert Hay Drummond[9]
- Bishop of St Davids â Anthony Ellys[10]
Events
- 5 January â 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 â 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
Music
- Elis Roberts â "Argulus"
Births
- January â Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda (died 1826)[16]
- 7 June â Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (died 1831)
- 23 June â Thomas Jones, mathematician (died 1807)[17]
- 4 July â John Evans, surgeon and cartographer (died 1846)
- 18 November â 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 â Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?[11]
- 5 August â Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, landowner and politician, 56[19]
- 14 September â William Parry, antiquarian and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 69[20]
- 23 September â John Talbot, judge and MP for Brecon, about 43/44[21]
- 28 October â Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, 47[22]