1751 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1751 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 (until 7 December)^[7]

Events

• 20 April – George, eldest son of the late Frederick, Prince of Wales, is made Prince of Wales.^[8]
• September – Richard Morris co-founds the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in London.^[9]
• Richard Price Thelwall inherits his brother's Caernarfonshire estate.

Arts and literature

New books

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 1^[10]

Music

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 1

Births

• 22 January – David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr), poet (died 1827)
• 15 October – David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), naval surgeon, companion of Captain Cook and bard (died 1798)^[11]

Deaths

• 31 March – Frederick, Prince of Wales, 44 (pulmonary embolism)
• 20 September – Anne Vaughan, Duchess of Bolton, 61/62^[12]
• 2 October – Thomas Mathews, admiral, 75^[13]
• 19 December – Princess Louise of Wales, queen of Denmark and Norway, 27^[14]

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: Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Peerage Limited. 2011. 124.
9. s-MORR-RIC-1703. MORRIS, RICHARD. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 14 June 2017.
10. s-WILL-WIL-1717. WILLIAMS, WILLIAM. Gomer Morgan Roberts. 14 June 2017. yes.
11. Book: Samwell, David . The death of Captain Cook and other writings . University of Wales Press . Cardiff . 2007 . 9780708319680 . 9.
12. 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 II, page 213.
13. Book: The Mat(t)hews Family: An Anthology of Mathews Lineages. 1970. 89.
14. Book: The English Illustrated Magazine. 1896. Macmillan and Company. 309.