1774 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales.
- John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham.
- An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff.[1]
- Morris Castle completed.
- Edward Jones, an "exhorter" at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, and a lay preacher, begins holding Welsh-language services in Cock Lane, Smithfield, London. [2]
Arts and literature
New books
- Hugh Hughes - Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (translation of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life
- Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis
- Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - Cydymaith yr Hwsmon
Music
- William Williams Pantycelyn - Ychydig Hymnau (hymns)
Paintings
- Thomas Jones - The Bard
- Richard Wilson - Llyn y Cau, Cadair Idris
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Births
- 16 January - Daniel Evans, independent minister (died 1835)
- May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841)
- 24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844)
- date unknown - Sir John Waters, military commander (died 1842)[3]
Deaths
- 13 January - John Pugh Pryse, politician, 34[4]
- 4 July - William Price, High Sheriff of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire, 84
- date unknown
- Rowland Jones, philologist, 57[5]
- Dafydd Nicolas, poet
References
- ^ "A Short History of Cardiff". www.localhistories.org. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
- ^ Welsh Biography Online: "Jones, Edward (1741?–after 1806)"
- ^ Griffiths, Barrie (1999). A Spy for Wellington: Sir John William Waters (1774-1842), Cefn Cribwr's Forgotten Hero.
- ^ "PRYSE, John Pugh (1739-74), of Gogerddan, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
- ^ Welsh Biography Online