1744 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1744 Events from the year 1744 in Wales. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, 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 (from 10 May) Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (until 9 August); Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton (from 13 November)Andrew Coltee Ducarel Timothy Hutton James Raine Matthew Hutton The Correspondence of Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York J. B. Nichols and son 1843 41 Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert10692 Gilbert, JohnGuides and Handbooks Royal Historical Society 1939 142 Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle (from 1 April)Browne Willis Edward Edwards Andrew Coltee Ducarel Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, Considerably Enlarged and Brought Down to the Present Time John Painter 1801 154 Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor (from 1 April)Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 305 Events 1 April - The Hon. Richard Trevor is consecrated as Bishop of St David's, replacing Edward Willes. Samuel Lisle is consecrated as Bishop of St Asaph on the same day. 18 May - Howell Harris marries Anne Williams.12392 Harris, Howel Derec Llwyd Morgan Derec Llwyd Morgan date unknown - Richard Morris is selected by the S.P.C.K. to supervise the production of its edition of the Welsh Bible. Arts and literature New books Jane Brereton - Poems on several occasions (posthumously published)S. Prescott Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740 https://books.google.com/books?id=ltOHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 8 September 2003 Palgrave Macmillan UK 978-0-230-59708-2 194 Music William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (first collection of hymns) Births 6 August - John Hanbury, ironmaster (died 1784) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/hanbury-john-1744-84 Hanbury, John (1744-84), of Pontypool, Mon. Institute of Historical Research History of Parliament Online 2 December 2017 17 September - Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey, father of Lady Charlotte Guest (died 1818)1790 R.G. Thorne Bertie, Albemarle (1744–1818), of Uffington, nr. Stamford, Lincs. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/bertie-albemarle-1744-1818 date unknown Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu yr Ail or Robin Ddu o Fon), poet (died 1785)Hughes, Robert (1744?-1785) 28 Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (first creation) (died 1823) Deaths 19 January - Lady Lucy Herbert, writer, 74Herbert, Lucy 2 March - William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, Jacobite, husband of Winifred Herbert, 67 9 August - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 71 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/brydges-hon-james-1674-1744 Brydges, Hon. James (1674-1744). History of Parliament Online 4 July 2019 5 January 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240105174027/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/brydges-hon-james-1674-1744 dead 21 September - William Nevill, 16th Baron Bergavenny, about 45G.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 I, page 40. References Wales Wales Wales Category:1740s in Wales