1743 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1743 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, 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 – vacant
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• 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 (until 21 April)^[4] Matthew Hutton (from 13 November)^[5]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert^{[6] [7]}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox (until May)^{[8] [9]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Willes (2 January - 12 December)^[10]

Events

• January 2 - Edward Willes is consecrated Bishop of St David's.^[11]
• April 21 - Thomas Herring becomes Archbishop of York and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by Matthew Hutton. Both men go on to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury.^[12]
• June 8 - William Bulkeley completes the first of his diaries.
• November - John Thomas is elected to replace Isaac Maddox as Bishop of St Asaph,^[13] but is translated to the bishopric of Lincoln before his consecration and is himself replaced at St Asaph by Samuel Lisle.
• date unknown
  • William Williams (Pantycelyn) is refused ordination as a priest because of his Methodist activities; from this time on he commits himself entirely to the Methodist movement.
  • A notable eisteddfod is held at Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog in Powys.^[14]
  • Griffith Hughes returns from his travels in America and Barbados, and presents a hitherto unknown substance, asbestos, to the Royal Society.^[15]

Arts and literature

New books

• Daniel Rowland & Ralph Erskine - Traethawd am farw i'r ddeddf, a byw i Dduw

Births

• May - Dafydd Siôn Siâms, musician, poet, and book-binder (died 1831)^[16]
• 2 May – William Parry, portrait painter (died 1791)
• 30 July - Philip Yorke, genealogist (died 1804)
• date unknown
  • Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist (died 1825)
  • Sir John Stepney, 8th Baronet, politician (died 1811)^[17]

Deaths

• March - Robert Wynne, priest and academic, about 80^[18]
• 16 April - Sir John Aubrey, 3rd Baronet, politician, 62^[19]
• 15 July - John Wynne, former Bishop of St Asaph and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, 85^[20]
• date unknown - Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian^[21]

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: Andrew Coltee Ducarel. Timothy Hutton . James Raine. Matthew Hutton. The Correspondence of Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. J. B. Nichols and son. 1843. 41.
6. 10692. Gilbert, John.
7. Book: Guides and Handbooks . Royal Historical Society . 1939 . 142.
8. Book: Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. 203.
9. Book: Arthur Philip Perceval. An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. 1839. 197.
10. Book: Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. 305.
11. Book: Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae. 1854. 305.
12. Book: Sidney Leslie Ollard. Philip Charles Walker. Archbishop Herring's Visitation Returns, 1743. 21 March 2013. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-108-05877-3. 32.
13. Book: s. austin allibone. A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. 1876. 2388.
14. Book: Wales. Geirlyfr bywgraffiadol o enwogion Cymru, etc. [By I. Foulkes.].]. 1870. I. Foulkes. 569.
15. Stearns, Raymond Phineas: Science in the British colonies of America, (Univ. of Illinois, 1970) p 357
16. s-JONE-DAF-1743. Jones, Dafydd.
17. Web site: STEPNEY, John (1743-1811), of Llanelly, Carm.. History of Parliament Online . 24 June 2016.
18. Book: Thomas Mardy Rees. Notable Welshmen (1700-1900). Herald Office. 1908. 41.
19. Web site: Aubrey, Sir John, 3rd Bt. (1680-1743) . History of Parliament Online. 6 October 2021 .
20. s-WYNN-JOH-1667. Wynne, John (1667-1743). yes.
21. Web site: Morgan, Thomas (d.1743) . Stephen . Leslie . 1894 . MacMillan . 7 May 2019.