1754 in Wales

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Events from the year 1754 in Wales.

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

New books
  • Richard Rees - Collected sermons, published by Philip Charles[2]
  • Ben Simon (ed.) - Collected works of Dafydd ap Gwilym[3]
  • Mêr Difinyddiaeth Iachus (second edition, with a preface by Morgan Jones)[4]

Music
  • William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 2[5]

Births
  • 25 November - William Parry, minister and author (died 1819)[6]
  • date unknown - Charles Hassall, surveyor (died 1814)[7]
  • earliest likely year - Jane Cave, poet (died 1812)[8]

Deaths
  • 10 January - Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83[9]
  • 20 February - John Owen, MP, about 52[10]
  • March - Henry Vaughan, Radnorshire landowner, 33 (murdered)
gollark: The word for something which works without you knowing why is a "black box".
gollark: No, lambda calculus is just working on abstract lambda thingies, it's a simple model for computation which is also kind of useless.
gollark: Meanwhile, GPT-3, OpenAI's latest GPT text generation thing, has *175 billion* parameters and uses, what, tens of gigabytes of memory?
gollark: No, lambda calculus is a relatively simple model you can understand fairly easily.
gollark: And with neural networks, you don't actually know *how* the network does its job, just that you feed in pixels and somehow get classification data out.

References
  1. Geraint Bowen. "Jenkin, John (Ioan Siengcin; 1716-1796), poet and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  2. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Rees, Richard (1707-1749), Arminian Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  3. "Ben Simon". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  4. John Dyfnallt Owen. "Jones, Morgan (1717?-1780), Congregational minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  5. Gwilym Lleyn (1869). Cambrian bibliography: containing an account of the books printed in the Welsh language, or relating to Wales, from the year 1546 to the end of the eighteenth century; with biographical notices. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. pp. 440.
  6. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Parry, William (1754-1819), Independent minister and tutor, and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  7. John Chapman (31 July 1992). A guide to parliamentary enclosures in Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-7083-1111-0.
  8. Roger Lonsdale; Roger H. Lonsdale (1990). Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. Oxford University Press. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-19-282775-3.
  9. "LEWIS, Erasmus (1671-1754), of Abercothi, Carm. and St. James's, Westminster". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  10. Jacob Youde William Lloyd (1885). The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog: And the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd. T. Richards. p. 285.
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