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September 2019
1746
Events from the year 1746 in Wales.
Incumbents
Great Britain incumbents 1746 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 HuttonAndrew 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
The Wales and Berwick Act 1746 is passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. It specifies that all future laws applying to England will also be applicable to Wales and Berwick-upon-Tweed.Great Britain Statutes at Large ...: (43 v.) ... From Magna charta to 1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=wa03AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA125 1765 125 It is finally repealed in its entirety by the Interpretation Act 1978.
William Edwards begins his first attempt at building a bridge over the River Taff at Pontypridd.David Yeomans How Structures Work: Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings https://books.google.com/books?id=_RsFCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 19 January 2016 John Wiley & Sons 978-1-119-01227-6 39
Construction of The Cathedral School, Llandaff, and the "Italian Temple", both designed by John Wood, the Elder, is completed.http://www.cardiffians.co.uk/suburbs/llandaff.shtml Llandaff - A City within a City Cardiffians 22 April 2019
Sidney Griffith joins the Methodist movement, after hearing a sermon by Peter Williams.s-GRIF-SID-1752 Griffith, Sidney, currently known as 'Madam Griffith' (died 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris Robert Thomas Jenkins 22 April 2019
Arts and literature
New books
Anna Williams - Life of the Emperor Julian (translation from the French)s-WILL-ANN-1706 Williams, Anna (1706-1783), author Gwyn Jones 1959 28 February 2022
Music
Births
January - Thomas Totty, admiral (died 1802) Banks Joseph The Indian and Pacific correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820 Pickering & Chatto London 2008 1851968350 7
28 September - William Jones, philologist (died 1794) Sir William Jones, 1746-1794 Edgerton Franklin Portrait of Linguists Sebeok Thomas A. Thomas Sebeok 2002 1936 1 1–17 Thoemmes Press https://books.google.com/books?id=9wxjDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 978-1-441-15874-1
Deaths
7 May - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet, politician and literary editor, 68William Martial Myddelton Chirk Castle Accounts A.d. 1666-1753 https://books.google.com/books?id=-rS8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA371 Manchester University Press 371
21 May - Lewis Morris, Welsh-descended Governor of New Jersey, 74 Dorwart Jeffery Invasion and insurrection : security, defense, and war in the Delaware Valley, 1621-1815 University of Delaware Press Newark Del 2008 9780874130362 216
References
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