1747 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1747 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 – William Perry^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton (until 10 December)^[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

• August - In the general election, William Morgan of Tredegar Park becomes MP for Monmouthshire.
• date unknown
  • Construction of the Usk Bridge (Usk), designed by William Edwards, begins.
  • Portrait-painter William Williams relocates to Philadelphia.
  • A Quaker meeting house is established at Quakers Friars in Bristol, the burial place of Llywelyn ap Dafydd.
  • James Relly reports on his missionary tour to Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire, and Birmingham.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Boydell - The Bridge Book

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns)

Births

• January - Richard Fenton, poet and author (died 1821)^[9]
• 10 March - Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams), antiquarian, poet and literary forger (died 1826)^[10]
• 5 April - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet (2nd creation) (died 1828)^[11]
• 6 April - Moses Griffith, artist (died 1819)^[12]

Deaths

• February - Walter Lloyd, lawyer and politician, 68^[13]
• 9 April - John Myddelton, landowner and politician, 61^[14]
• 21 July - Robert Clavering, former Bishop of Llandaff, 70/71^[15]
• probable - David Lloyd, clergyman and translator

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. Brynley F. . Roberts . Fenton, Richard (1747–1821) . 9298 . 2004 .
10. Web site: Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826. Archives Wales. National Library of Wales. 8 October 2021.
11. Book: George Edward Cokayne. Complete baronetage: Volume V. W. Pollard & Company. 1900. 172.
12. Moses Griffith. J. Lloyd-Johnes. National Library of Wales Journal. Council of the National Library of Wales. 1979. 241.
13. Web site: LLOYD, Walter (?1678-1747), of Peterwell, Card. . History of Parliament Online. 23 May 2019 .
14. Web site: MYDDELTON, John (1685-1747), of Chirk Castle, Denb. | History of Parliament Online. 8 October 2021.
15. Book: W. Percy Hedley. Northumberland Families. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1968. 179.