1756 in Wales

none October 2021 October 2021 1756 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 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 – William Perry (until 13 January); Howell Gwynne (from 13 January)http://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 – Zachary Pearce (until 4 June);Hole Robert Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774) 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/21693 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21693 4 June 2008 John Egerton (from 4 July)John 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 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.s3-EVAN-LEW-1700 Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer Mary Gwyneth Lewis 29 March 2019 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.Ted Ruddock Masonry Bridges, Viaducts and Aqueducts https://books.google.com/books?id=vChSAAAAMAAJ 1 January 2000 Ashgate Variorum 978-0-86078-751-8 221 Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls at Aberdyfi.s-MORR-LEW-1701 Morris, Lewis (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-1765), poet and scholar Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 29 March 2019 Arts and literature New books Hugh Hughes – Cywydd Galarnadd am ynys Minorca...Bethan M. Jenkins Writing Wales in English: Between Wales and England -: Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=XeyVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 15 March 2017 University of Wales Press 978-1-78683-031-9 47 Sion Kadwaladr – Einion a Gwenllians-KADW-SIO-1750 Kadwaladr, Sion fl. 1750-1765, writer of ballads and interludes Gruffydd Glyn Evans yes 2 May 2019 Music Elis Roberts – "Argulus" Births January – Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda (died 1826)Lloyd John Edward Jenkins, R.T. The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Down to 1940 1958 William Lewis Cardiff 307 7 June – Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (died 1831) 23 June – Thomas Jones, mathematician (died 1807)JNS774T Thomas Jones 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) Thomas Owen The atonement controversy : in Welsh theological literature & debate, 1707-1841 Banner of Truth Trust Edinburgh 2002 9780851518169 151 Simon Lloyd, Methodist preacher (died 1836) Deaths 12 June – Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56? 5 August – Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, landowner and politician, 56 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/wynne-sir-george-1700-56 WYNNE, Sir George (1700-56), of Leeswood Hall, Flints. History of Parliament Online 18 March 2019June 2026 InternetArchiveBot 14 September – William Parry, antiquarian and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 69http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21439 Parry, William (bap. 1687, d. 1756) Cooper Thompson 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access) Oxford University Press 2008-04-24 23 September – John Talbot, judge and MP for Brecon, about 43/44http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/talbot-hon-john-1712-56 TALBOT, Hon. John (c.1712-56), of Lincoln's Inn. 16 June 2016 6 May 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160506222202/http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/talbot-hon-john-1712-56 dead 28 October – Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, 47 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/somerset-lord-charles-noel-1709-56 Somerset, Lord Charles Noel (1709-56). History of Parliament Online 16 April 2019 References Category:1756 by country Category:1756 in Great Britain Category:1756 in Europe Category:1750s in Wales