1740 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1740 Events from the year 1740 in Wales. Incumbents Great Britain incumbents 1740 in Great Britain#Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of CholmondeleyJ.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of BoltonArthur Collins The Peerage of England...The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed H. Woodfall 1768 235 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos Bishop of Bangor – Thomas HerringFasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 108 Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson (until 21 October);Guides and Handbooks Royal Historical Society 1939 142 John Gilbert (from 28 December)10692 Gilbert, John Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac MaddoxGuides and Handbooks Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) 1939 203Arthur Philip Perceval An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders 1839 197 Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas ClagettCLGT702N Clagett, Nicholas Events 6 November - Charles Wesley records in his diary a visit to the Glascott family home at Cardiff.s-GLAS-CRA-1743 GLASCOTT, CRADOCK (1743-1831), an Evangelical cleric Daniel Williams 12 August 2018 date unknown - William Williams Pantycelyn becomes a deaconEvan David Evans A History of Wales, 1660-1815 https://books.google.com/books?id=ohMXAQAAIAAJ 1976 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-0624-6 and is appointed curate to Theophilus Evans at Llanfaes.s-WILL-WIL-1717 WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer Gomer Morgan Roberts yes 12 August 2018 Arts and literature New books John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completeds-WILL-ZAC-1673 Williams, Zachariah (1673-1755), medical practitioner, and inventor Gwyn Jones 1959 9 March 2022 Music Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)Llyfr o hymneu o waith amryw awdwyr 1740 Births 23 February - Benjamin Evans, Congregational minister and author (died 1821)s-WILL-JOH-1740 WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Rhagfyr; 1740-1821), musician Robert David Griffith yes 29 November 2018 26 December - John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), musician (died 1821) date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (died 1821) Deaths 3 April - Thomas Dominic Williams, Roman Catholic bishop, 78/9bishop bwillt Bishop Thomas Dominic Williams, O.P. 21 June 2011 7 August - Jane Brereton, poet, 55Turner Katherine http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62642 Brereton [née Hughes], Jane (1685–1740), poet Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online 17 July 2008 3 October - Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, politician, 76https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/devereux-price-1664-1740 DEVEREUX, Price (c.1664-1740), of Vaynor Park, Mont. History of Parliament Trust 28 October 2018 20 October - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75? http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/williams-sir-william-1665-1740 WILLIAMS, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (c.1665-1740), of Glascoed, Llansilin, Denb. History of Parliament Online 23 June 2019 date unknown Enoch Francis, Baptist John Morris, youngest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 34 (died at sea during an attack on Cartagena)s-MORR-JOH-1706 MORRIS, JOHN (1706-1740), sailor Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 29 November 2018 References Category:1740 in Europe Wales Wales Category:1740s in Wales