1733 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1733 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (until 7 May); George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley (from 14 June)^{[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 – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet (from 21 June)
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner (from 23 January)^{[6] [7]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

• 21 June - The post of Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire is combined with that of Custos Rotulorum of Denbighshire.^[8]
• 29 November - Charles Talbot is appointed Lord Chancellor.^[9]
• 5 December - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, is raised to the peerage.
• date unknown
  • Legal proceedings in the Welsh courts to be conducted in the English language.
  • John Myddelton, politician, inherits the estates of his brother Robert, including Chirk Castle.

Arts and literature

New books

• "Gwinfrid Shones" (popular ballad)^[10]
• William Wynn writes his first poem, while a student at Oxford.^[11]

Births

• March - John Lloyd, Rector of Caerwys, antiquary (died 1793)^[12]

Deaths

• 22 January - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, about 66^[13]
• 2 February - Robert Price, judge, 80^[14]
• 28 February - John Morgan, poet, 45^[15]
• 7 May - George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 66/67^[16]
• June/July - Michael Pritchard, poet, 24^[17]
• date unknown - Robert Myddelton, owner of the Myddelton estates^[18]

Notes and References

1. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
2. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
3. Book: Arthur Collins. The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. 1768. 235.
4. Book: E. B. Pryde. D. E. Greenway. S. Porter. I. Roy. Handbook of British Chronology. 23 February 1996. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-56350-5. 292.
5. s-HARR-JOH-1680. Harris, John (1680 - 1738), bishop of Llandaff . Thomas. Lawrence. 3 October 2021.
6. Book: Arthur Philip Perceval. An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. 1839. 197.
7. Tanner, Thomas (1674-1735). 55. William Prideaux . Courtney.
8. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
9. Book: John Campbell Baron Campbell. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV. 1857. John Murray. 136.
10. Millson, Cecilia (1986), Old Berkshire Tales, Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books,, p31
11. Web site: Wynn, William (bap. 1709, d. 1760). Wiliam. Dafydd Wyn . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004 . 10 March 2009.
12. s-LLOY-JOH-1733. LLOYD, JOHN (1733 - 1793). Jenkins. Robert Thomas. yes. 1 May 2008.
13. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 3094
14. s-PRIC-ROB-1655. PRICE, ROBERT (1655-1733), judge. William Llewelyn Davies. William Llewelyn Davies. yes. 26 June 2018.
15. Web site: Morgan, John (1688 - 1733/4) . Edwards . Huw M. . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access) . Oxford University Press. 2004 . 2008-04-10.
16. Cholmondeley, George. 10.
17. s-PRIT-MIC-1709. Pritchard, Michael (c.1709-1733), poet. Moelwyn Idwal Williams. yes. 3 October 2021.
18. s-MYDD-ELT-1207. Sir THOMAS MYDDELTON (c.1624-1663), 1st bart.. A. H. Dodd. A. H. Dodd. yes. 26 June 2018.