1750 in Wales

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Events from the year 1750 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Frederick
• Princess of Wales – Augusta

Events

• "Disruption of 1750": Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland quarrel, resulting in a lasting split in the Welsh Methodist movement.[1]
• William Thomas begins his diary.[2]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Griffith Hughes - Natural History of Barbados[3]

Welsh language

• David Jones - Egluryn Rhyfedd[4]
• Daniel Rowland - Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un Cyfeiliornus

Births

• June - William Morgan, actuary (died 1833)
• 14 November - Edward Williams, clergyman and academic (died 1813)
• 11 December - Isaac Shelby, Welsh-descended American politician (born in US; died 1826)[5]

Deaths

• 9 January - Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 56[6]
• May - Sir Samuel Pennant, Lord Mayor of London[7]
• 29 November - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel[8]

References

1. Gareth Elwyn Jones; Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology Gareth Jones (28 October 1994). Modern Wales: A Concise History. Cambridge University Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-521-46945-6.
2. William Thomas (1995). The Diary of William Thomas of Michaelston-super-Ely, Near St. Fagans, Glamorgan, 1762-1795. South Wales Record Society and South Glamorgan County Council Libraries & Arts Department. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-9525961-0-3.
3. Friedrich August Flückiger; Daniel Hanbury (1874). Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met with in Great Britain and British India. Macmillan. pp. 569.
4. Caernarvonshire Historical Society (1986). Transactions: (Trafodion). p. 89.
5. Powell, William Stevens (1994). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Vol. 5, P-S. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2100-8.
6. Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1825. p. 111.
7. Thomas Richards. "PENNANT (and DOUGLAS-PENNANT) family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caerns". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
8. William Llewelyn Davies. "MANSEL family, of Oxwich, Penrice, and Margam abbey, Glam". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.