1740 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1740 in Wales.

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 (until 21 October);^[5] John Gilbert (from 28 December)^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox^{[7] [8]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

• 6 November - Charles Wesley records in his diary a visit to the Glascott family home at Cardiff.^[9]
• date unknown - William Williams Pantycelyn becomes a deacon^[10] and is appointed curate to Theophilus Evans at Llanfaes.^[11]

Arts and literature

New books

• John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
• Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
• Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed^[12]

Music

• Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)^[13]

Births

• 23 February - Benjamin Evans, Congregational minister and author (died 1821)^[14]
• 26 December - John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), musician (died 1821)
• date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (died 1821)

Deaths

• 3 April - Thomas Dominic Williams, Roman Catholic bishop, 78/9
• 7 August - Jane Brereton, poet, 55^[15]
• 3 October - Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, politician, 76^[16]
• 20 October - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?^[17]
• date unknown
  • Enoch Francis, Baptist
  • John Morris, youngest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 34 (died at sea during an attack on Cartagena)^[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: 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. 10692. Gilbert, John.
7. Book: Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. 203.
8. Book: Arthur Philip Perceval. An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. 1839. 197.
9. s-GLAS-CRA-1743. GLASCOTT, CRADOCK (1743-1831), an Evangelical cleric. Daniel Williams. 12 August 2018.
10. Book: Evan David Evans. A History of Wales, 1660-1815. 1976. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-0624-6.
11. s-WILL-WIL-1717. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer. Gomer Morgan Roberts. yes. 12 August 2018.
12. s-WILL-ZAC-1673. Williams, Zachariah (1673-1755), medical practitioner, and inventor. Gwyn Jones. 1959. 9 March 2022.
13. Book: Llyfr o hymneu o waith amryw awdwyr . 1740.
14. s-WILL-JOH-1740. WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Rhagfyr; 1740-1821), musician. Robert David Griffith. yes. 29 November 2018.
15. Turner, Katherine, Brereton [née Hughes], Jane (1685–1740), poet, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
16. Web site: DEVEREUX, Price (c.1664-1740), of Vaynor Park, Mont.. History of Parliament Trust. 28 October 2018.
17. Web site: WILLIAMS, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (c.1665-1740), of Glascoed, Llansilin, Denb.. History of Parliament Online. 23 June 2019.
18. s-MORR-JOH-1706. MORRIS, JOHN (1706-1740), sailor. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 29 November 2018.