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1751
Events from the year 1751 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) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21693 4 June 2008
Bishop of Llandaff – Edward CressetThomas 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 Trevor (until 7 December)Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 305
Events
20 April – George, eldest son of the late Frederick, Prince of Wales, is made Prince of Wales.Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage Debrett's Peerage Limited 2011 124
September – Richard Morris co-founds the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in London.s-MORR-RIC-1703 MORRIS, RICHARD Robert Thomas Jenkins 14 June 2017
Richard Price Thelwall inherits his brother's Caernarfonshire estate.
Arts and literature
New books
William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 1s-WILL-WIL-1717 WILLIAMS, WILLIAM Gomer Morgan Roberts 14 June 2017 yes
Music
William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 1
Births
22 January – David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr), poet (died 1827)
15 October – David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), naval surgeon, companion of Captain Cook and bard (died 1798) Samwell David The death of Captain Cook and other writings University of Wales Press Cardiff 2007 9780708319680 9
Deaths
31 March – Frederick, Prince of Wales, 44 (pulmonary embolism)9042 23 March 1750 1
20 September – Anne Vaughan, Duchess of Bolton, 61/62G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 213.
2 October – Thomas Mathews, admiral, 75The Mat(t)hews Family: An Anthology of Mathews Lineages https://books.google.com/books?id=4H80AAAAMAAJ 1970 89
19 December – Princess Louise of Wales, queen of Denmark and Norway, 27The English Illustrated Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=-0dOAQAAMAAJ 1896 Macmillan and Company 309
References
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