1744 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1744 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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne (from 10 May)^[1]
• 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 (until 9 August);^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton (from 13 November)^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert^{[5] [6]}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle (from 1 April)^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor (from 1 April)^[8]

Events

• 1 April - The Hon. Richard Trevor is consecrated as Bishop of St David's, replacing Edward Willes. Samuel Lisle is consecrated as Bishop of St Asaph on the same day.^[8]
• 18 May - Howell Harris marries Anne Williams.^[9]
• date unknown - Richard Morris is selected by the S.P.C.K. to supervise the production of its edition of the Welsh Bible.

Arts and literature

New books

• Jane Brereton - Poems on several occasions (posthumously published)^[10]

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (first collection of hymns)

Births

• 6 August - John Hanbury, ironmaster (died 1784)^[11]
• 17 September - Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey, father of Lady Charlotte Guest (died 1818)
• date unknown
  • Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu yr Ail or Robin Ddu o Fon), poet (died 1785)^[12]
  • Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (first creation) (died 1823)

Deaths

• 19 January - Lady Lucy Herbert, writer, 74^[13]
• 2 March - William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, Jacobite, husband of Winifred Herbert, 67
• 9 August - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 71^[14]
• 21 September - William Nevill, 16th Baron Bergavenny, about 45^[15]

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: 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.
5. 10692. Gilbert, John.
6. Book: Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. 1939. 142.
7. Book: Browne Willis. Edward Edwards. Andrew Coltee Ducarel. Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, Considerably Enlarged and Brought Down to the Present Time. John Painter. 1801. 154.
8. Book: Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. 305.
9. 12392 . Harris, Howel . Derec Llwyd . Morgan . Derec Llwyd Morgan.
10. Book: S. Prescott. Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740. 8 September 2003. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 978-0-230-59708-2. 194.
11. Web site: HANBURY, John (1744-84), of Pontypool, Mon.. . . 2 December 2017.
12. Hughes, Robert (1744?-1785). 28.
13. Herbert, Lucy.
14. Web site: Brydges, Hon. James (1674-1744).. History of Parliament Online. 4 July 2019 .
15. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 40.