1749 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1749 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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
  • Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset (from 12 February)^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond^[6]
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor^[7]

Events

• 8 April - Charles Wesley marries Sarah Gwynne of Garth.^[8]
• 19 July - "Madam" Sidney Griffith accompanies Howell Harris to the Llangeitho association - the beginning of a relationship that would cause considerable controversy.^[9]
• 23 September - Harris finds "Madam Griffith" awaiting him at Trevecka, with the news that her husband, now bankrupt, has beaten her and thrown her out of the house for refusing to give him any more money.^[9]
• December - Benjamin Franklin notes that printer Hugh Meredith owes him money.^[10]

Arts and literature

New books

• Lewis Evans - A Map of Pensilvania, New Jersey, New York and the three Delaware counties, including notes on thunder and lightning^[11]
• John Jones - Free and Candid Disquisitions^[12]
• Zachariah Williams - A True Narrative of certain Circumstances relating to Zachariah Williams in the Charterhouse^[13]

Births

• 12 May - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven (died 1809)^[14]
• 13 May - Prince Frederick of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1765)
• 23 September - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1789)
• date unknown
  • Nicholas Bayly, MP for Anglesey 1784-90 (died 1814)^[15]
  • Edward Jones, musician (died 1779)^[16]
  • Thomas Owen, Anglican priest and translator (died 1812)
  • Charles Symmons, poet (died 1826)^[17]

Deaths

• May - Winifred Herbert, Countess of Nithsdale, 58?
• 3 July - Sir William Jones, mathematician, 74
• August - Angharad James, poet, 72
• 26 September - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, 57(injuries sustained in a fall from a horse)^[18]
• 22 December - Richard Smalbroke, former Bishop of St David's, 77^[19]

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. Hole. Robert. Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774). 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/21693. 4 June 2008 .
5. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. 255.
6. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
7. Book: Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. 305.
8. Web site: The Marriage of Charles and Sarah Wesley. ThePoetPreacher. 30 March 2020.
9. s-GRIF-SID-1752. Griffith (née Wynne, Sidney, currently known as 'Madam Griffith' (died 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 7 June 2023.
10. Book: Lemay, J.A. Leo. The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1: Journalist, 1706-1730, Volume 1. 377. 2006. 9780812209112.
11. s3-EVAN-LEW-1700. Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer. Mary Gwyneth Lewis. 29 March 2019.
12. s-JONE-JOH-1700. Jones, John (1700-1770). Daniel Williams. yes. 30 March 2020.
13. Book: Stefka Ritchie. Samuel Johnson's Pragmatism and Imagination. 7 November 2018. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 978-1-5275-2109-4. 240.
14. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 387.
15. Web site: BAYLY, Nicholas (1749-1814), of Plas Newydd, Anglesey. History of Parliament Online. 21 April 2019.
16. Book: Thomas Rowland Roberts. Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present. 1908. Educational Publishing Company. 229.
17. The Gentleman's Magazine. John Nichols. Obituary: Charles Symmons, DD. R. Newton. 1826. 565.
18. Book: The American Harp Journal. 1981. American Harp Society. 13.
19. Smalbroke, Richard.