1753 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1753 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 (until 6 June);^[4] Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (from 2 August)^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce^[5]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys (from 31 March)^[8]

Events

• Lewis Morris is briefly imprisoned at Cardigan when the local squires challenge his rights as the Crown's local representative to mine for lead. As a result of the controversy, Morris visits London for the first time.
• Isaac Wilkinson of Cumbria takes out a lease on the Bersham furnace at Wrexham,^[9] and settles at Plas Grono.^[10]
• William Thomas, former Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, unsuccessfully brings an action in Chancery against Thomas James, Lord Bulkeley, claiming the advowson of Aber.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Richards of Coychurch – Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus (English-Welsh dictionary)
• William Wogan – Essay on the Proper Lessons of the Church of England

Music

• 2 July – John Jones succeeds the late Johann Christoph Pepusch as organist at Charterhouse.

Births

• 2 April – William Lort Mansel, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (died 1820)^[11]
• 8 October – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island (died 1822)
• 10 December – Richard Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (died 1780)
• date unknown
  • Christopher Bassett, Methodist clergyman (died 1784)^[12]
  • Henry Davies, Baptist minister (died 1825)

Deaths

• 6 June – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet, MP for Pembroke and Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire^[13]
• date unknown
  • Hughe Hughes, Dean of Bangor, about 44^[14]
  • William Gwyn Vaughan, politician, about 72^[15]

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. Web site: Owen, Sir Arthur, 3rd Bt. (c.1674-1753), of Orielton, Pemb.. History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). 30 September 2018.
5. Hole. Robert. Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. 4 June 2008 .
6. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,. University Press. 1854. 255.
7. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
8. Ellys, Anthony.
9. Book: P. K. Stembridge. The Goldney Family: A Bristol Merchant Dynasty. registration. 1998. Bristol Record Society. 36–. UOM:39015041909204.
10. Book: W.H. Chaloner. People and Industries. 10 January 2018. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-351-24724-5. 24.
11. Book: The Publications of the Thoresby Society. The Society. 1967. 78.
12. s-BASS-CHR-1753. BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753 - 1784), Methodist cleric. Roberts. Gomer Morgan. 16 May 2018.
13. s-OWEN-ORI-1571. OWEN family of Orielton, Pembs.. James Frederick Rees. yes. 16 May 2018.
14. Book: Henry Owen. Henry Rowlands. Mona Antiqua restaurata. An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the Isle of Anglesey. J. Knox. 1766. 35.
15. Web site: VAUGHAN, William Gwyn (?1681-1753), of Trebarried, Brec.. History of Parliament Online. 18 October 2019.