1774 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1774 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.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 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of DderwEdwin Poole The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions Edwin Poole 1886 378 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas WynnEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George RiceRice, George Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William VaughanEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Robert Clive (until 2 November)The Montgomeryshire Collections Clifton Press 1972 116 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl MortimerJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115 Bishop of Bangor – John Ewer (until 28 October)John McClintock James Strong Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature Baker Book House 1981 324 John MooreThe Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature R[ichard]. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-noster-Row Tobias Smollett 1775 159 Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barringtonappointment 275358 Barrington, Shute Llandaff 4 September 2014 Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan ShipleyThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (until 2 June); James Yorke (from 26 June)Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305 Events July - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales. Lynch Jack Samuel Johnson in context Cambridge University Press Cambridge New York 2011 9780521190107 320 unknown dates John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham. Day Lance Biographical dictionary of the history of technology Routledge London New York 1996 9780415193993 1312 An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff. http://www.localhistories.org/Cardiff.html www.localhistories.org A Short History of Cardiff 2007-12-31 11 December 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121211062541/http://www.localhistories.org/Cardiff.html dead Construction work is completed on Morris Castle, "Wales's first block of flats". Davies John The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales University of Wales Press Cardiff, Wales 2008 9780708319536 845 Edward Jones, an "exhorter" at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, and a lay preacher, begins holding Welsh-language services in Cock Lane, Smithfield, London.s-JONE-EDW-1741 Jones, Edward (1741?–after 1806) Robert Thomas Jenkins 22 October 2021 Arts and literature New books Hugh Hughes - Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (translation of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransiss-JONE-DAF-1711 Jones, Dafydd (1711-1777), hymn-writer Gomer Morgan Roberts 22 October 2021 Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - Cydymaith yr Hwsmon Music William Williams Pantycelyn - Ychydig Hymnau (hymns) Paintings Thomas Jones - The Bard Richard Wilson - Llyn y Cau, Cadair Idris Births 16 January - Daniel Evans, independent minister (died 1835) May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841) 24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844)s-SHAD-AZA-1774 Shadrach, Azariah (1774–1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author 22 October 2021 Evan David Jones date unknown - Sir John Waters, military commander (died 1842)Griffiths, Barrie (1999). A Spy for Wellington: Sir John William Waters (1774-1842), Cefn Cribwr's Forgotten Hero. Deaths 13 January - John Pugh Pryse, politician, 34https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/pryse-john-pugh-1739-74 PRYSE, John Pugh (1739-74), of Gogerddan, Card. History of Parliament Online 3 October 2018 4 July - William Price, High Sheriff of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire, 84 28 October - John Ewer, Bishop of Bangor, about 70Ewer, John date unknown Rowland Jones, philologist, 57s-JONE-ROW-1722 Jones, Rowland (1722-1774), philologist William Rowlands 22 October 2021 Dafydd Nicolas, poet References Wales Wales Category:1774 in Europe Category:1770s in Wales