1740 in Wales
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Events from the year 1740 in Wales.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Frederick
- Princess of Wales - Augusta
Events
- 6 November - Charles Wesley records in his diary a visit to the Glascott family home at Cardiff.[1]
- date unknown - William Williams Pantycelyn becomes a deacon[2] and is appointed curate to Theophilus Evans at Llanfaes.[3]
Arts and literature
New books
- John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
- Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
- Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed
Music
- Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)
Births
- 23 February - Benjamin Evans, Congregational minister and author (died 1821)[4]
- 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[5]
- 7 August - Jane Brereton, poet, 55
- 3 October - Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, politician, 76
- 20 October - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?
- date unknown
- Enoch Francis, Baptist
- John Morris, youngest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 34 (died at sea during an attack on Cartagena)[6]
References
- Daniel Williams. "GLASCOTT, CRADOCK (1743-1831), an Evangelical cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- Evan David Evans (1976). A History of Wales, 1660-1815. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-0624-6.
- Gomer Morgan Roberts. "WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- Robert David Griffith. "WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Rhagfyr; 1740-1821), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- "Bishop Thomas Dominic Williams, O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, JOHN (1706-1740), sailor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
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