1774 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice^[7]
  • • Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Robert Clive (until 2 November)^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer^{[11] [2]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Ewer (until 28 October)^[12] John Moore^[13]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (until 2 June); James Yorke (from 26 June)^[15]

Events

• July - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales.^[16]
• unknown dates
  • John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham.^[17]
  • An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff.^[18]
  • Construction work is completed on Morris Castle, "Wales's first block of flats".^[19]
  • Edward Jones, an "exhorter" at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, and a lay preacher, begins holding Welsh-language services in Cock Lane, Smithfield, London.^[20]

Arts and literature

New books

• Hugh Hughes - Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (translation of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life
• Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis^[21]
• Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - Cydymaith yr Hwsmon

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn - Ychydig Hymnau (hymns)

Paintings

• Thomas Jones - The Bard
• Richard Wilson - Llyn y Cau, Cadair Idris

Births

• 16 January - Daniel Evans, independent minister (died 1835)
• May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841)
• 24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844)^[22]
• date unknown - Sir John Waters, military commander (died 1842)^[23]

Deaths

• 13 January - John Pugh Pryse, politician, 34^[24]
• 4 July - William Price, High Sheriff of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire, 84
• 28 October - John Ewer, Bishop of Bangor, about 70
• date unknown
  • Rowland Jones, philologist, 57^[25]
  • Dafydd Nicolas, poet

Notes and References

1. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 24.
2. 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.
3. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
4. Book: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. 169.
5. Book: Edwin Poole. The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. 1886. 378.
6. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 26.
7. Rice, George.
8. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 612.
9. Book: Edward Breese. Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. 1873. 29.
10. Book: The Montgomeryshire Collections. Clifton Press. 1972. 116.
11. Book: Jonathan Williams. The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. 1859. 115.
12. Book: John McClintock. James Strong. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. Baker Book House. 1981. 324.
13. Book: The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature. R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row. Tobias Smollett. 1775. 159.
14. Book: The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. 15.
15. Book: Thomas Duffus Hardy. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales.... University Press. 1854. 305.
16. Book: Lynch, Jack . Samuel Johnson in context . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge New York . 2011 . 9780521190107 . 320.
17. Book: Day, Lance . Biographical dictionary of the history of technology . Routledge . London New York . 1996 . 9780415193993 . 1312.
18. Web site: A Short History of Cardiff . www.localhistories.org. 2007-12-31.
19. Book: Davies, John . The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales . University of Wales Press . Cardiff, Wales . 2008 . 9780708319536 . 845.
20. s-JONE-EDW-1741. Jones, Edward (1741?–after 1806). Robert Thomas Jenkins. 22 October 2021.
21. s-JONE-DAF-1711. Jones, Dafydd (1711-1777), hymn-writer. Gomer Morgan Roberts. 22 October 2021.
22. s-SHAD-AZA-1774. Shadrach, Azariah (1774–1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author. 22 October 2021. Evan David Jones.
23. Griffiths, Barrie (1999). A Spy for Wellington: Sir John William Waters (1774-1842), Cefn Cribwr's Forgotten Hero.
24. Web site: PRYSE, John Pugh (1739-74), of Gogerddan, Card.. History of Parliament Online. 3 October 2018.
25. s-JONE-ROW-1722. Jones, Rowland (1722-1774), philologist. William Rowlands. 22 October 2021.