1750 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1750 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^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond^[6]
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor^[7]

Events

• 9 January – At the age of 25, Henry Herbert the younger succeeds to his father's earldom of Pembroke.
• "Disruption of 1750": Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland quarrel, resulting in a lasting split in the Welsh Methodist movement.^[8]
• William Thomas begins his diary.^[9]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Griffith Hughes - Natural History of Barbados^[10]

Welsh language

• David Jones - Egluryn Rhyfedd^[11]
• Daniel Rowland - Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un Cyfeiliornus

Births

• June - William Morgan, actuary (died 1833)^[12]
• 14 November - Edward Williams, clergyman and academic (died 1813)^[13]
• 11 December - Isaac Shelby, Welsh-descended American politician (born in US; died 1826)^[14]
• unknown date - Evan Davies, Independent minister (died 1806)^[15]

Deaths

• 9 January - Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 56^[16]
• May - Sir Samuel Pennant, Lord Mayor of London^[17]
• 22 May - Matthew Pritchard, Roman Catholic bishop, 81^[18]
• 29 November - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel^[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). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. 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. Book: Gareth Elwyn Jones. Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology Gareth Jones. Modern Wales: A Concise History. 28 October 1994. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-46945-6. 132.
9. Book: William Thomas. The Diary of William Thomas of Michaelston-super-Ely, Near St. Fagans, Glamorgan, 1762-1795. 1995. South Wales Record Society and South Glamorgan County Council Libraries & Arts Department. 978-0-9525961-0-3. 445.
10. Book: Friedrich August Flückiger. Daniel Hanbury. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met with in Great Britain and British India. 1874. Macmillan. 569.
11. Book: Caernarvonshire Historical Society. Transactions: (Trafodion). 1986. 89.
12. Book: The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. 1934. 154.
13. Williams, Edward (1750-1813).
14. Book: Powell, William Stevens . Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Vol. 5, P-S . University of North Carolina Press . 1994 . 978-0-8078-2100-8.
15. Evan Davies. s-DAVI-EVA-1750. Williams. Griffith John. 18 April 2017.
16. Book: Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1825. 111.
17. s-PENN-ANT-1734. PENNANT (and DOUGLAS-PENNANT) family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caerns.. Thomas Richards. yes. 16 May 2018.
18. Book: Connell, Joan . The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780-1850 : a study in internal politics . American Philosophical Society . Philadelphia . 1984 . 9780871691583 . 204.
19. s-MANS-OXW-1250. MANSEL family, of Oxwich, Penrice, and Margam abbey, Glam.. William Llewelyn Davies. yes. 15 May 2018.