1739 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1739 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, 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 – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
  • Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet 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 Herring^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson (from 18 February)^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox^{[6] [7]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

• March - Diarist William Bulkeley of Brynddu is a bearer at the funeral of Richard Bulkeley, 5th Viscount Bulkeley, and leaves an account in his diary.^[8]
• 20 May - The roof of St Mary's Church, Swansea, collapses into the nave just before a Sunday morning service; the congregation is waiting outside for the officiating priest, who is running late.^[9]
• date unknown
  • Samuel and Nathaniel Buck tour Wales to produce the first of their prints of the country, following on from their prints of England.
  • A new parish church is completed at Willington Worthenbury near Wrexham, designed by Richard Trubshaw.

Arts and literature

New books

• Rowland Ellis - A Salutation to the Britains (2nd London edition)^[10]
• John Reynolds - The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry

Music

Births

• January - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (died 1810)^[11]
• 14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1767)
• 3 April - Hugh Davies, botanist (died 1821)
• date unknown - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (died 1810)^[12]

Deaths

• 5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65^[13]
• 6 June - John Griffith, MP for Caernarvonshire, about 52^[14]

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: Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. 108.
5. Book: Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. 1939. 142.
6. Book: Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. 203.
7. Book: Arthur Philip Perceval. An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. 1839. 197.
8. s-BULK-WIL-1691. BULKELEY, WILLIAM (1691-1760), squire and diarist. Thomas Richards. 26 June 2018.
9. Web site: St. Mary's Church. Explore Gower. St. Mary's vestry book. 26 June 2018. 27 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180627010709/http://www.explore-gower.co.uk/st-mary-s-church. dead.
10. s-ELLI-ROW-1650. ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker. Robert (Bob) Owen. yes. 26 June 2018.
11. 62647 . Lake . A. Cynfael . Edwards, Thomas [called Twm o'r Nant] (1738–1810), poet.
12. Book: Evans, Chris . The letterbook of Richard Crawshay, 1788-1797 . South Wales Record Society . Cardiff . 1990 . 9780950867656 . IX.
13. Web site: Mostyn, Sir Roger, third baronet (1673–1739). Norgate. G. Le G. . Clayton, M. E. . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. May 2007. 6 November 2008.
14. Web site: GRIFFITH, John (?1687-1739), of Cefnamwlch, Caern. . History of Parliament Online. 2 October 2018.