1774 in Wales - Wikiwand

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people.

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Incumbents

Bishop of Bangor â John Ewer (until 28 October)^[12] John Moore^[13]
Bishop of Llandaff â Shute Barrington^[14]
Bishop of St Asaph â Jonathan Shipley^[15]
Bishop of St Davids â Charles Moss (until 2 June); James Yorke (from 26 June)^[16]

Events

July - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales.^[17]
unknown dates
- John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham.^[18]
- An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff.^[19]
- Construction work is completed on Morris Castle, "Wales's first block of flats".^[20]
- Edward Jones, an "exhorter" at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, and a lay preacher, begins holding Welsh-language services in Cock Lane, Smithfield, London.^[21]

Arts and literature

New books

Hugh Hughes - Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (translation of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life
Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis^[22]
Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - Cydymaith yr Hwsmon

Music

William Williams Pantycelyn - Ychydig Hymnau (hymns)

Paintings

Thomas Jones - The Bard
Richard Wilson - Llyn y Cau, Cadair Idris

Births

16 January - Daniel Evans, independent minister (died 1835)
May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841)
24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844)^[23]
date unknown - Sir John Waters, military commander (died 1842)^[24]

Deaths

13 January - John Pugh Pryse, politician, 34^[25]
4 July - William Price, High Sheriff of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire, 84
28 October - John Ewer, Bishop of Bangor, about 70^[26]
date unknown
- Rowland Jones, philologist, 57^[27]
- Dafydd Nicolas, poet

References

[1]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
[2]
J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
[3]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
[4]
Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
[5]
Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
[6]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
[7]
"Rice, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885â1900.
[8]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
[9]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
[10]
The Montgomeryshire Collections. Clifton Press. 1972. p. 116.
[11]
Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
[12]
John McClintock; James Strong (1981). Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. p. 324.
[13]
Tobias Smollett, ed. (1775). The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. p. 159.
[14]
"Barrington, Shute (at Llandaff)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540â1835. CCEd Appointment ID 275358. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
[15]
The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
[16]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
[17]
Lynch, Jack (2011). Samuel Johnson in context. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780521190107.
[18]
Day, Lance (1996). Biographical dictionary of the history of technology. London New York: Routledge. p. 1312. ISBN 9780415193993.
[19]
"A Short History of Cardiff". www.localhistories.org. Retrieved 31 December 2007.
[20]
Davies, John (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press. p. 845. ISBN 9780708319536.
[21]
Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Edward (1741?âafter 1806)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
[22]
Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Jones, Dafydd (1711-1777), hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
[23]
Evan David Jones. "Shadrach, Azariah (1774â1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
[24]
Griffiths, Barrie (1999). A Spy for Wellington: Sir John William Waters (1774-1842), Cefn Cribwr's Forgotten Hero.
[25]
"PRYSE, John Pugh (1739-74), of Gogerddan, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
[26]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Ewer, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885â1900.
[27]
William Rowlands. "Jones, Rowland (1722-1774), philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 October 2021.

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