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September 2019
1753
Events from the year 1753 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 (until 6 June); https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/owen-sir-arthur-1674-1753 Owen, Sir Arthur, 3rd Bt. (c.1674-1753), of Orielton, Pemb. History of Parliament Online (1715–1754) 30 September 2018 Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (from 2 August)
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 – Anthony Ellys (from 31 March)Ellys, Anthony
Events
Lewis Morris is briefly imprisoned at Cardigan when the local squires challenge his rights as the Crown's local representative to mine for lead. As a result of the controversy, Morris visits London for the first time.
Isaac Wilkinson of Cumbria takes out a lease on the Bersham furnace at Wrexham,P. K. Stembridge The Goldney Family: A Bristol Merchant Dynasty https://archive.org/details/goldneyfamilybri00stem registration 1998 Bristol Record Society 36– UOM:39015041909204 and settles at Plas Grono.W.H. Chaloner People and Industries https://books.google.com/books?id=7wRGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT24 10 January 2018 Taylor & Francis 978-1-351-24724-5 24
William Thomas, former Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, unsuccessfully brings an action in Chancery against Thomas James, Lord Bulkeley, claiming the advowson of Aber.
Arts and literature
New books
Thomas Richards of Coychurch – Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus (English-Welsh dictionary)
William Wogan – Essay on the Proper Lessons of the Church of England
Music
2 July – John Jones succeeds the late Johann Christoph Pepusch as organist at Charterhouse.
Births
2 April – William Lort Mansel, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (died 1820)The Publications of the Thoresby Society The Society 1967 78
8 October – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island (died 1822)
10 December – Richard Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (died 1780)
date unknown
Christopher Bassett, Methodist clergyman (died 1784)s-BASS-CHR-1753 BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric Roberts Gomer Morgan 16 May 2018
Henry Davies, Baptist minister (died 1825)
Deaths
6 June – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet, MP for Pembroke and Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshires-OWEN-ORI-1571 OWEN family of Orielton, Pembs. James Frederick Rees yes 16 May 2018
date unknown
Hughe Hughes, Dean of Bangor, about 44Henry Owen Henry Rowlands Mona Antiqua restaurata. An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the Isle of Anglesey J. Knox 1766 35
William Gwyn Vaughan, politician, about 72http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/vaughan-william-gwyn-1681-1753 VAUGHAN, William Gwyn (?1681-1753), of Trebarried, Brec. History of Parliament Online 18 October 2019June 2026 InternetArchiveBot
References
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