1739 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1739 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Frederick
- Princess of Wales - Augusta
Events
- March - Diarist William Bulkeley of Brynddu is a bearer at the funeral of Richard Bulkeley, 5th Viscount Bulkeley, and leaves an account in his diary.[1]
- 20 May - The roof of St Mary's Church, Swansea, collapses into the nave just before a Sunday morning service; the congregation is waiting outside for the officiating priest, who is running late.[2]
- date unknown
- Samuel and Nathaniel Buck tour Wales to produce the first of their prints of the country, following on from their prints of England.
- A new parish church is completed at Willington Worthenbury near Wrexham, designed by Richard Trubshaw.[3]
Arts and literature
New books
- Rowland Ellis - A Salutation to the Britains (2nd London edition)[4]
- John Reynolds - The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry
Music
Births
- January - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (died 1810)
- March 14 - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1767)
- April 3 - Hugh Davies, botanist (died 1821)
- date unknown - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (died 1810)
Deaths
- May 5 - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65
- June - John Griffith, MP for Caernarvonshire
gollark: The UK seems to plan to reopen them, because of people somehow insisting that it would be horribly immoral for people to not do school for a while?
gollark: My school still hasn't really explained what they plan to do to reopen safely, and the term starts in about 2.5 weeks.
gollark: I mean, in lots of cases big companies actually *don't* have enough money to, say, cover several months of zero revenue.
gollark: Expensive yes, but "damaging for space"? Who cares? Besides, there are ridiculous amounts of asteroids.
gollark: That's *something*, I guess.
References
- Thomas Richards. "BULKELEY, WILLIAM (1691-1760), squire and diarist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- St. Mary's vestry book. "St. Mary's Church". Explore Gower. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- "St Deiniol's Church, Worthenbury". Coflein. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- Robert (Bob) Owen. "ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
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