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1748
Events from the year 1748 in Wales.
Incumbents
Great Britain incumbents 1748 in Great Britain#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 fgH. 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 – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet (until 27 August);http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/cotton-sir-robert-salusbury-1695-1748 History of Parliament Online Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, third Baronet, of Combermere, Cheshire, and Llewenny (1695–1748) 18 October 2023 Richard Myddelton (from 20 August)
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry
Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce (from 21 February)Hole Robert Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21693 4 June 2008
Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert (until 29 December)10692 Gilbert, JohnGuides and Handbooks Royal Historical Society 1939 142
Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle (until 17 March)Browne Willis Edward Edwards Andrew Coltee Ducarel Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, Considerably Enlarged and Brought Down to the Present Time John Painter 1801 154 Robert Hay Drummond (from 24 April)The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15
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
8 March - With the death of the childless William Herbert, 3rd Marquess of Powis, the title becomes extinct. Henry Arthur Herbert subsequently becomes 1st Earl of Powis.
Richard Wilson paints the two eldest sons of Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Joseph Harris becomes Assay-Master at the Royal Mint.
A major eisteddfod is held at Selattyn.
William Williams Pantycelyn marries Mary Francis of Llansawel.
The Salusbury family leave Lleweni Hall.
Arts and literature
New books
Lewis Morris - Plans of Harbours, Bays, and Roads in St. George's and the Bristol Channels
Music
January 2011
Births
1 September - Thomas Johnes, landowner (died 1816)
Deaths
8 March - William Herbert, 3rd Marquess of Powis, 50Powys-land Club The Montgomeryshire Collections Clifton Press 1954 21
27 August - Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet, 53http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/cotton-sir-robert-salusbury-1695-1748 History of Parliament Online Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, third Baronet, of Combermere, Cheshire, and Llewennny, Denbighshire (1695–1748)] 8 October 2021
December - John Harris, Sr., Welsh-descended American trader, 75
References
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