1754 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1754 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 (until 26 August);^[3] Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth (from 6 November)^[4]
• 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 William Owen, 4th Baronet^[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^[8]

Events

• April–May – In the British general election, newly elected MPs include Robert Wynne at Caernarvon Boroughs and Benjamin Bathurst at Monmouth Boroughs.
• John Jenkin (Ioan Siengcin) opens a Welsh school at Nevern.^[9]

Arts and literature

New books

• Richard Rees – Collected sermons, published by Philip Charles^[10]
• Ben Simon (ed.) – Collected works of Dafydd ap Gwilym^[11]
• Mêr Difinyddiaeth Iachus (second edition, with a preface by Morgan Jones)^[12]

Music

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 2^[13]

Births

• 28 October – John Griffiths, medical practitioner and surgeon in the Royal Household (died 1822)
• 25 November – William Parry, minister and author (died 1819)^[14]
• date unknown – Charles Hassall, surveyor (died 1814)^[15]
• earliest likely year – Jane Cave, poet (died 1812)^[16]

Deaths

• 10 January – Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83^[17]
• 20 February – John Owen, MP, about 52^[18]
• 17 May – Richard Herbert, politician, 49/50^[19]
• 26 August – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, 68^[20]

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: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
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. s-JENK-JOH-1716. Jenkin, John (Ioan Siengcin; 1716-1796), poet and schoolmaster. Geraint Bowen. 29 March 2019.
10. s-REES-RIC-1707. Rees, Richard (1707-1749), Arminian Independent minister. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 29 March 2019.
11. s-SIMO-BEN-1703. Simon, Ben. yes. 24 August 2014.
12. s-JONE-MOR-1717. Jones, Morgan (1717?-1780), Congregational minister. John Dyfnallt Owen. yes. 29 March 2019.
13. Book: Gwilym Lleyn. Cambrian bibliography: containing an account of the books printed in the Welsh language, or relating to Wales, from the year 1546 to the end of the eighteenth century; with biographical notices. 1869. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. 440.
14. s-PARR-WIL-1754. Parry, William (1754-1819), Independent minister and tutor, and author. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 29 March 2019.
15. Book: John Chapman. A guide to parliamentary enclosures in Wales. 31 July 1992. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1111-0. 166.
16. Book: Roger Lonsdale. Roger H. Lonsdale. Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. 1990. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-282775-3. 373.
17. Web site: LEWIS, Erasmus (1671-1754), of Abercothi, Carm. and St. James’s, Westminster. History of Parliament Online. 20 April 2019.
18. Book: Jacob Youde William Lloyd. The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog: And the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd. 1885. T. Richards. 285.
19. Web site: HERBERT, Richard (1704-54). . History of Parliament Online (1715–1754) . 12 December 2018.
20. Web site: POWLETT, Charles II, Marquess of Winchester (1685-1754), of Hackwood, nr. Basingstoke, Hants. . History of Parliament Online (1690–1715). 3 October 2018.