1740 in Wales

Events from the year 1740 in Wales.

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Incumbents

For Great Britain incumbents, see 1740 in Great Britain § 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 – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• 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^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Herring^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson (until 21 October);^[5] John Gilbert (from 28 December)^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox^[7][8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett^[9]

Events

• 6 November - Charles Wesley records in his diary a visit to the Glascott family home at Cardiff.^[10]
• date unknown - William Williams Pantycelyn becomes a deacon^[11] and is appointed curate to Theophilus Evans at Llanfaes.^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
• Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
• Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed^[13]

Music

• Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)^[14]

Births

• 23 February - Benjamin Evans, Congregational minister and author (died 1821)^[15]
• 26 December - John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), musician (died 1821)
• date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (died 1821)

Deaths

• 3 April - Thomas Dominic Williams, Roman Catholic bishop, 78/9^[16]
• 7 August - Jane Brereton, poet, 55^[17]
• 3 October - Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, politician, 76^[18]
• 20 October - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?^[19]
• date unknown
  • Enoch Francis, Baptist
  • John Morris, youngest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 34 (died at sea during an attack on Cartagena)^[20]

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
3. 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.
4. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 108.
5. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. 1939. p. 142.
6. "Gilbert, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10692. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
7. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
8. Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
9. "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
10. Daniel Williams. "GLASCOTT, CRADOCK (1743-1831), an Evangelical cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
11. Evan David Evans (1976). A History of Wales, 1660-1815. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-0624-6.
12. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
13. Gwyn Jones (1959). "Williams, Zachariah (1673-1755), medical practitioner, and inventor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
14. Llyfr o hymneu o waith amryw awdwyr. 1740.
15. Robert David Griffith. "WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Rhagfyr; 1740-1821), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
16. "Bishop Thomas Dominic Williams, O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
17. Turner, Katherine, Brereton [née Hughes], Jane (1685–1740), poet, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Retrieved 17 July 2008.
18. "DEVEREUX, Price (c.1664-1740), of Vaynor Park, Mont". History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
19. "WILLIAMS, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (c.1665-1740), of Glascoed, Llansilin, Denb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
20. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, JOHN (1706-1740), sailor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2018.