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September 2019
1757
Events from the year 1757 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 – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George RiceRice, George
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynnehttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/gwynne-howell-1718-80 Gwynne, Howell (1718-80), of Garth in Llanleonfel, Brec. Namier Lewis History of Parliament Online 7 October 2017
Bishop of Bangor – John EgertonJohn McClintock James Strong Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature Baker Book House 1981 324
Bishop of Llandaff – Richard NewcomeNWCM718R2 Newcome, Richard
Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay DrummondThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15
Bishop of St Davids – Anthony EllysEllys, Anthony
Events
George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, takes out a lease on Esgair-mwyn lead mine.National Library of Wales Journal Council of the National Library of Wales 1999 133
Hirwaun ironworks begins coke smelting. Ince Laurence The South Wales iron industry, 1750-1885 Ferric Great Britain 1993 9780951816516 33
Daines Barrington is appointed judge of the Merioneth, Caernarvonshire and Anglesey circuit (Court of Great Sessions). Stephens Meic The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales Oxford University Press Oxford Oxfordshire New York 1986 9780192115867 33
Arts and literature
New books
John Dyer – The FleeceJack Lynch John T. Lynch The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=hegoDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA313 2016 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-960080-9 313
Edward Evans – translation of S. Bourne's Catechism
Elizabeth Griffith – A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and FrancesRichard Griffith Elizabeth Griffith A Series of Genuine Letters Between Henry and Frances https://books.google.com/books?id=gnnIwgEACAAJ 1761 W. Johston
Joseph Harris – An Essay Upon Money and Coins
Joshua Thomas – Tystiolaeth y CredadynGwilym 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 https://archive.org/details/cambrianbibliog00prysgoog 1869 Printed and pub. by J. Pryse 445
Music
Elis Roberts – "Jeils"
William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau DuwiolDavid Ceri Jones Eryn Mant White The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811 https://books.google.com/books?id=ylKuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA138 4 January 2012 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2502-5 138–
Births
12 September – John Williams, lawyer and writer on legal topics (died 1810)
date unknown – Thomas Foley, admiral (died 1833)Tom Wareham, ‘Foley, Sir Thomas (1757–1833)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2007 accessed 9 March 2008 Oxford DNB - subscription required
probable – Richard Jones, Ruthin priest and writer (died 1814)
Deaths
23 March – Thomas Herring, former Bishop of Bangor, 64https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-13098 Herring, Thomas (1693–1757), archbishop of Canterbury 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/13098 Holtby Robert T.
16 July – Richard Lloyd, politician, about 54http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/lloyd-richard-1703-57 LLOYD, Richard (c.1703-57), of Mabws, Card. History of Parliament Online 2 January 2019 15 February 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190215155938/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/lloyd-richard-1703-57 dead
16 September – Savage Mostyn, naval officer, 40s
December – John Dyer, poet, 56Shaw, Thomas B. A Complete Manual of English Literature. Ed. William Smith. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1872. 372. Print.
References
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