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1743
Events from the year 1743 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 – vacant
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
Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Herring (until 21 April)Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 108 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 – Isaac Maddox (until May)Guides and Handbooks Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) 1939 203Arthur Philip Perceval An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders 1839 197
Bishop of St Davids – Edward Willes (2 January - 12 December)Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 305
Events
2 January - Edward Willes is consecrated Bishop of St David's.Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae https://books.google.com/books?id=0IVpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA305 1854 305
21 April - Thomas Herring becomes Archbishop of York and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by Matthew Hutton. Both men go on to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury.Sidney Leslie Ollard Philip Charles Walker Archbishop Herring's Visitation Returns, 1743 https://books.google.com/books?id=nWsX2dhAONAC&pg=PA32 21 March 2013 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-05877-3 32
8 June - William Bulkeley completes the first of his diaries.September 2026
November - John Thomas is elected to replace Isaac Maddox as Bishop of St Asaph,s. austin allibone A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors https://books.google.com/books?id=Vd0Er62JcDYC&pg=PA2388 1876 2388 but is translated to the bishopric of Lincoln before his consecration and is himself replaced at St Asaph by Samuel Lisle.September 2026
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William Williams (Pantycelyn) is refused ordination as a priest because of his Methodist activities; from this time on he commits himself entirely to the Methodist movement.September 2026
A notable eisteddfod is held at Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog in Powys.Wales Geirlyfr bywgraffiadol o enwogion Cymru, etc. [By I. Foulkes.]. https://books.google.com/books?id=HDxcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA569 1870 I. Foulkes 569
Griffith Hughes returns from his travels in America and Barbados, and presents a hitherto unknown substance, asbestos, to the Royal Society.Stearns, Raymond Phineas: Science in the British colonies of America, (Univ. of Illinois, 1970) p 357
Arts and literature
New books
Daniel Rowland & Ralph Erskine - Traethawd am farw i'r ddeddf, a byw i Dduw
Births
May - Dafydd Siôn Siâms, musician, poet, and book-binder (died 1831)s-JONE-DAF-1743 Jones, Dafydd
2 May – William Parry, portrait painter (died 1791)
30 July - Philip Yorke, genealogist (died 1804)
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Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist (died 1825)
Sir John Stepney, 8th Baronet, politician (died 1811)http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/stepney-john-1743-1811 STEPNEY, John (1743-1811), of Llanelly, Carm. History of Parliament Online 24 June 2016
Deaths
March - Robert Wynne, priest and academic, about 80Thomas Mardy Rees Notable Welshmen (1700-1900) Herald Office 1908 41
16 April - Sir John Aubrey, 3rd Baronet, politician, 62 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/aubrey-sir-john-1680-1743 Aubrey, Sir John, 3rd Bt. (1680-1743) History of Parliament Online 6 October 2021 June 2026 InternetArchiveBot
15 July - John Wynne, former Bishop of St Asaph and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, 85s-WYNN-JOH-1667 Wynne, John (1667-1743) yes
date unknown - Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian Morgan, Thomas (d.1743) 39 Stephen Leslie Leslie Stephen 35-36 1
References
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