1753 in Wales
| |||||
| Centuries: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decades: | |||||
| See also: | List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history
| ||||
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 Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne[1]
- 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);[4] Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (from 2 August)[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry[1]
- Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce[5]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset[6]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond[7]
- Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys (from 31 March)[8]
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,[9] and settles at Plas Grono.[10]
- 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)[11]
- 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)[12]
- Henry Davies, Baptist minister (died 1825)
Deaths
- 6 June - Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet, MP for Pembroke and Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire[13]
- date unknown
- Hughe Hughes, Dean of Bangor, about 44[14]
- William Gwyn Vaughan, politician, about 72[15]
References
- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
- ^ "Owen, Sir Arthur, 3rd Bt. (c.1674-1753), of Orielton, Pemb". History of Parliament Online (1715-1754). Retrieved 30 September 2018.
- ^ Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
- ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,. University Press. p. 255.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ P. K. Stembridge (1998). The Goldney Family: A Bristol Merchant Dynasty. Bristol Record Society. pp. 36–. UOM:39015041909204.
- ^ W.H. Chaloner (10 January 2018). People and Industries. Taylor & Francis. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-351-24724-5.
- ^ The Publications of the Thoresby Society. The Society. 1967. p. 78.
- ^ Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ James Frederick Rees. "OWEN family of Orielton, Pembs.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ Henry Owen; Henry Rowlands (1766). Mona Antiqua restaurata. An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the Isle of Anglesey. J. Knox. p. 35.
- ^ "VAUGHAN, William Gwyn (?1681-1753), of Trebarried, Brec". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 October 2019.