1745 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1745 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^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – vacant^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert^{[5] [6]}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor^[8]

Events

• Following the failure of the Jacobite Rebellion, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is suspected of involvement and seeks protection from his father-in-law, Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort.

Arts and literature

New books

• Anonymous
  • An Expostulatory Epistle to the Welsh Knight..., etc^[9]
  • An Apology for the Welsh Knight..., etc^[9]

Music

• Ancient British Music, Part 2 (unpublisher)^[10]

Births

• 13 January – Robert Jones, Rhoslan, writer (died 1829)
• 14 February – David Davis (Castellhywel), poet (died 1827)^[11]
• 15 July – Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1819)^[12]
• date unknown – Thomas Redmond, artist (died 1785)^[13]

Deaths

• 22 October – William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis, 80^[14]
• date unknown – Erasmus Lewes, Anglican clergyman

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. Book: Robert Phillimore. George Lyttelton. Memoirs And Correspondence Of George, Lord Lyttelton, From 1734 To 1773. Ridgway. 1845. 2.
10. Book: The Anglo-Welsh Review. Dock Leaves Press. 1980. 135.
11. Book: White, Cathryn . Welsh poetry of the French Revolution, 1789-1805 . University of Wales Press . Cardiff . 2012 . 9780708325292 . 413.
12. Book: Thomas Mardy Rees. Notable Welshmen (1700-1900). Herald Office. 1908. 142.
13. Book: Thomas Mardy Rees. Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527-1911). Welsh Publishing Company. 1912. 123.
14. Herbert, William (d.1745). 26.