1739 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1739 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1739 to Wales and its people. 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 – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos Bishop of Bangor – Thomas HerringFasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 108 Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson (from 18 February)Guides and Handbooks Royal Historical Society 1939 142 Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac MaddoxGuides 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 – Nicholas ClagettCLGT702N Clagett, Nicholas Events March - Diarist William Bulkeley of Brynddu is a bearer at the funeral of Richard Bulkeley, 5th Viscount Bulkeley, and leaves an account in his diary.s-BULK-WIL-1691 Bulkeley, William (1691-1760), squire and diarist Thomas Richards 26 June 2018 20 May - The roof of St Mary's Church, Swansea, collapses into the nave just before a Sunday morning service; the congregation is waiting outside for the officiating priest, who is running late.http://www.explore-gower.co.uk/st-mary-s-church St. Mary's Church Explore Gower St. Mary's vestry book 26 June 2018 27 June 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180627010709/http://www.explore-gower.co.uk/st-mary-s-church dead date unknown Samuel and Nathaniel Buck tour Wales to produce the first of their prints of the country, following on from their prints of England. A new parish church is completed at Willington Worthenbury near Wrexham, designed by Richard Trubshaw.307972 St Deiniol's Church, Worthenbury 26 June 2018 Arts and literature New books Rowland Ellis - A Salutation to the Britains (2nd London edition)s-ELLI-ROW-1650 Ellis, Rowland (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker Robert (Bob) Owen yes 26 June 2018 John Reynolds - The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry Music Births January - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (died 1810)62647 Lake A. Cynfael Edwards, Thomas [called Twm o'r Nant] (1738–1810), poet 14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1767) 3 April - Hugh Davies, botanist (died 1821) date unknown - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (died 1810) Evans Chris The letterbook of Richard Crawshay, 1788-1797 South Wales Record Society Cardiff 1990 9780950867656 IX Deaths 5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65Mostyn, Sir Roger, third baronet (1673–1739) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19416 Norgate G. Le G. Clayton, M. E. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press May 2007 6 November 2008 6 June - John Griffith, MP for Caernarvonshire, about 52 https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/griffith-john-1687-1739 GRIFFITH, John (?1687-1739), of Cefnamwlch, Caern. History of Parliament Online 2 October 2018 References Category:1730s in Wales Category:1739 by country Category:1739 in Great Britain Category:1739 in Europe