1756 in Wales explained

Events from the year 1756 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 – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth^[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 – George Rice^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry (until 13 January); Howell Gwynne (from 13 January)^{[5] [1]}
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce (until 4 June);^[6] John Egerton (from 4 July)^[7]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond^[8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys^[9]

Events

• 5 January – An article appears in The New York Mercury, criticising the work of Lewis Evans in identifying boundaries in his General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America.^[10]
• Spring – Completion of Britain's longest single-span bridge (at this date), William Edwards' Old Bridge, Pontypridd, over the River Taff, at the third (or fourth) attempt.^[11]
• Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls at Aberdyfi.^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• Hugh Hughes – Cywydd Galarnadd am ynys Minorca...^[13]
• Sion Kadwaladr – Einion a Gwenllian^[14]

Music

• Elis Roberts – "Argulus"

Births

• January – Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda (died 1826)^[15]
• 7 June – Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (died 1831)
• 23 June – Thomas Jones, mathematician (died 1807)
• 4 July – John Evans, surgeon and cartographer (died 1846)
• 18 November – Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (died 1837)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Jones of Denbigh, minister and author (died 1820)^[16]
  • Simon Lloyd, Methodist preacher (died 1836)

Deaths

• 12 June – Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?^[10]
• 5 August – Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, landowner and politician, 56^[17]
• 14 September – William Parry, antiquarian and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 69^[18]
• 23 September – John Talbot, judge and MP for Brecon, about 43/44^[19]
• 28 October – Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, 47^[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: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
4. Rice, George.
5. Web site: Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec.. Namier. Lewis. History of Parliament Online. 7 October 2017.
6. Hole. Robert. Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. 4 June 2008 .
7. Book: John McClintock. James Strong. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. 1981. 324.
8. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
9. Ellys, Anthony.
10. s3-EVAN-LEW-1700. Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer. Mary Gwyneth Lewis. 29 March 2019.
11. Book: Ted Ruddock. Masonry Bridges, Viaducts and Aqueducts. 1 January 2000. Ashgate Variorum. 978-0-86078-751-8. 221.
12. s-MORR-LEW-1701. Morris, Lewis (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-1765), poet and scholar. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 29 March 2019.
13. Book: Bethan M. Jenkins. Writing Wales in English: Between Wales and England -: Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century. 15 March 2017. University of Wales Press. 978-1-78683-031-9. 47.
14. s-KADW-SIO-1750. Kadwaladr, Sion fl. 1750-1765, writer of ballads and interludes. Gruffydd Glyn Evans. yes. 2 May 2019.
15. Book: Lloyd, John Edward . Jenkins, R.T. . The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Down to 1940 . 1958 . William Lewis. Cardiff . 307.
16. Book: Thomas, Owen . The atonement controversy : in Welsh theological literature & debate, 1707-1841 . Banner of Truth Trust . Edinburgh . 2002 . 9780851518169 . 151.
17. Web site: WYNNE, Sir George (1700-56), of Leeswood Hall, Flints. . History of Parliament Online. 18 March 2019.
18. Web site: Parry, William (bap. 1687, d. 1756). Cooper. Thompson. 2004. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. 2008-04-24.
19. Web site: TALBOT, Hon. John (c.1712-56), of Lincoln's Inn.. 16 June 2016.
20. Web site: Somerset, Lord Charles Noel (1709-56).. History of Parliament Online. 16 April 2019 .