1744 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1720s; 1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1744 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Events from the year 1744 in Wales.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - Frederick
Princess of Wales - Augusta

Events

1 April - The Hon. Richard Trevor is consecrated as Bishop of St David's, replacing Edward Willes.[1]
18 May - Howell Harris marries Anne Williams.
date unknown - Richard Morris is selected by the S.P.C.K. to supervise the production of its edition of the Welsh Bible.

Arts and literature

New books

Jane Brereton - Poems on several occasions (posthumously published)[2]

Music

William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (first collection of hymns)

Births

6 August - John Hanbury, ironmaster (died 1784)
17 September - Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey, father of Lady Charlotte Guest (died 1818)[3]
date unknown - Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (first creation) (died 1823)

Deaths

19 January - Lady Lucy Herbert, writer, 74[4]
2 March - William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, Jacobite, husband of Winifred Herbert, 67
21 September - William Nevill, 16th Baron Bergavenny, about 45[5]

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References

Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae. 1854. p. 305.
S. Prescott (8 September 2003). Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-230-59708-2.
Thorne, R.G. (1986). "BERTIE, Albemarle (1744–1818), of Uffington, nr. Stamford, Lincs.". In Thorne, R. G. (ed.). The House of Commons 1790-1820. The History of Parliament Trust.
"Herbert, Lucy" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 40.

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[1] Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae. 1854. p. 305.

[2] S. Prescott (8 September 2003). Women, Authorship and Literary Culture 1690 - 1740. Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-230-59708-2.

[3] Thorne, R.G. (1986). "BERTIE, Albemarle (1744–1818), of Uffington, nr. Stamford, Lincs.". In Thorne, R. G. (ed.). The House of Commons 1790-1820. The History of Parliament Trust.

[4] "Herbert, Lucy" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[5] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 40.