1749 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1749 Events from the year 1749 in Wales. 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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry Bishop of Bangor – Zachary PearceHole Robert Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774) 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/21693 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21693 4 June 2008 Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset (from 12 February)Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 255 Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay DrummondThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard TrevorFasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 305 Events 8 April - Charles Wesley marries Sarah Gwynne of Garth.https://thepoetpreacher.com/the-marriage-of-charles-and-sarah-wesley The Marriage of Charles and Sarah Wesley ThePoetPreacher 30 March 2020 19 July - "Madam" Sidney Griffith accompanies Howell Harris to the Llangeitho association - the beginning of a relationship that would cause considerable controversy.s-GRIF-SID-1752 Griffith (née Wynne, Sidney, currently known as 'Madam Griffith' (died 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris Robert Thomas Jenkins 7 June 2023 23 September - Harris finds "Madam Griffith" awaiting him at Trevecka, with the news that her husband, now bankrupt, has beaten her and thrown her out of the house for refusing to give him any more money. December - Benjamin Franklin notes that printer Hugh Meredith owes him money.Lemay, J.A. Leo https://books.google.com/books?id=aWwUBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA377 The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1: Journalist, 1706-1730, Volume 1 377 2006 9780812209112 Arts and literature New books Lewis Evans - A Map of Pensilvania, New Jersey, New York and the three Delaware counties, including notes on thunder and lightnings3-EVAN-LEW-1700 Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer Mary Gwyneth Lewis 29 March 2019 John Jones - Free and Candid Disquisitionss-JONE-JOH-1700 Jones, John (1700-1770) Daniel Williams yes 30 March 2020 Zachariah Williams - A True Narrative of certain Circumstances relating to Zachariah Williams in the CharterhouseStefka Ritchie Samuel Johnson's Pragmatism and Imagination https://books.google.com/books?id=WzJ3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240 7 November 2018 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 978-1-5275-2109-4 240 Births 12 May - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven (died 1809)Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 July 2006 The Royal Society of Edinburgh 0-902-198-84-X https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf 387 13 May - Prince Frederick of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1765) 23 September - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician (died 1789) date unknown Nicholas Bayly, MP for Anglesey 1784-90 (died 1814)https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/bayly-nicholas-1749-1814 BAYLY, Nicholas (1749-1814), of Plas Newydd, Anglesey History of Parliament Online 21 April 2019 27 January 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200127143116/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/bayly-nicholas-1749-1814 dead Edward Jones, musician (died 1779)Thomas Rowland Roberts Eminent Welshmen: A Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present https://archive.org/details/eminentwelshmens01robeuoft 1908 Educational Publishing Company 229 Thomas Owen, Anglican priest and translator (died 1812) Charles Symmons, poet (died 1826)The Gentleman's Magazine John Nichols Obituary: Charles Symmons, DD R. Newton 1826 565 Deaths May - Winifred Herbert, Countess of Nithsdale, 58? 3 July - Sir William Jones, mathematician, 74 August - Angharad James, poet, 72 26 September - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, 57(injuries sustained in a fall from a horse)The American Harp Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=Kn8JAQAAMAAJ 1981 American Harp Society 13 22 December - Richard Smalbroke, former Bishop of St David's, 77Smalbroke, Richard References Category:1749 by country Category:1749 in Great Britain Category:1749 in Europe Category:1740s in Wales