1754 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1754 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Events from the year 1754 in Wales.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George III)
Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

April–May - In the British general election, newly elected MPs include Robert Wynne at Caernarvon Boroughs and Benjamin Bathurst at Monmouth Boroughs.
John Jenkin (Ioan Siengcin) opens a Welsh school at Nevern.[1]

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)

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References

Geraint Bowen. "Jenkin, John (Ioan Siengcin; 1716-1796), poet and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Rees, Richard (1707-1749), Arminian Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
"Ben Simon". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
John Dyfnallt Owen. "Jones, Morgan (1717?-1780), Congregational minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
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.
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.
John Chapman (31 July 1992). A guide to parliamentary enclosures in Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-7083-1111-0.
Roger Lonsdale; Roger H. Lonsdale (1990). Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. Oxford University Press. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-19-282775-3.
"LEWIS, Erasmus (1671-1754), of Abercothi, Carm. and St. James's, Westminster". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
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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[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.