1747 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1747 Events from the year 1747 in Wales. Incumbents Great Britain incumbents 1747 in Great Britain#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 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton (until 10 December)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 LisleBrowne 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 TrevorFasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 305 Events August - In the general election, William Morgan of Tredegar Park becomes MP for Monmouthshire. date unknown Construction of the Usk Bridge (Usk), designed by William Edwards, begins. Portrait-painter William Williams relocates to Philadelphia. A Quaker meeting house is established at Quakers Friars in Bristol, the burial place of Llywelyn ap Dafydd. James Relly reports on his missionary tour to Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire, and Birmingham. Arts and literature New books John Boydell - The Bridge Book Music William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns) Births January - Richard Fenton, poet and author (died 1821)Brynley F. Roberts Fenton, Richard (1747–1821) 9298 2004 10 March - Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams), antiquarian, poet and literary forger (died 1826)https://archives.library.wales/index.php/iolo-morganwg-1747-2 Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826 Archives Wales National Library of Wales 8 October 2021 5 April - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet (2nd creation) (died 1828)George Edward Cokayne Complete baronetage: Volume V W. Pollard & Company 1900 172 6 April - Moses Griffith, artist (died 1819)Moses Griffith J. Lloyd-Johnes National Library of Wales Journal Council of the National Library of Wales 1979 241 Deaths February - Walter Lloyd, lawyer and politician, 68http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/lloyd-walter-1678-1747 LLOYD, Walter (?1678-1747), of Peterwell, Card. History of Parliament Online 23 May 2019 24 May 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190524195254/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/lloyd-walter-1678-1747 dead 9 April - John Myddelton, landowner and politician, 61http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/myddelton-john-1685-1747 MYDDELTON, John (1685-1747), of Chirk Castle, Denb. | History of Parliament Online 8 October 2021 21 July - Robert Clavering, former Bishop of Llandaff, 70/71W. Percy Hedley Northumberland Families Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne 1968 179 probable - David Lloyd, clergyman and translator References Category:1747 by country Category:1747 in Great Britain Category:1747 in Europe Category:1740s in Wales