1756 in Wales

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Events from the year 1756 in Wales.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 5 January - An article appears in The New York Mercury, criticising the work of Lewis Evans in identifying boundaries in his General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America.[1]
• Spring - Completion of Britain's longest single-span bridge (at this date), William Edwards' Old Bridge, Pontypridd, over the River Taff, at the third (or fourth) attempt.[2]
• Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls at Aberdyfi.[3]

Arts and literature

New books

• Hugh Hughes - Cywydd Galarnadd am ynys Minorca...[4]
• Sion Kadwaladr - Einion a Gwenllian[5]

Music

• Elis Roberts - "Argulus"

Births

• January - Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda (died 1826)
• 7 June - Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (died 1831)
• 23 June - Thomas Jones, mathematician (died 1807)
• 4 July - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer (died 1846)
• 18 November - Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (died 1837)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Jones of Denbigh, minister and author (died 1820)
  • Simon Lloyd, Methodist preacher (died 1836)

Deaths

• 12 June - Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?[1]
• 5 August - Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, landowner and politician, 56[6]
• 14 September - William Parry, antiquarian and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 69[7]
• 23 September - John Talbot, judge and MP for Brecon, about 43/44[8]
• 28 October - Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, 47

References

1. Mary Gwyneth Lewis. "Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
2. Ted Ruddock (1 January 2000). Masonry Bridges, Viaducts and Aqueducts. Ashgate Variorum. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-86078-751-8.
3. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Lewis (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-1765), poet and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
4. Bethan M. Jenkins (15 March 2017). Writing Wales in English: Between Wales and England -: Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century. University of Wales Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-78683-031-9.
5. Gruffydd Glyn Evans. "Kadwaladr, Sion fl. 1750-1765, writer of ballads and interludes". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
6. "WYNNE, Sir George (1700-56), of Leeswood Hall, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
7. Cooper, Thompson (2004). "Parry, William (bap. 1687, d. 1756)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
8. "TALBOT, Hon. John (c.1712-56), of Lincoln's Inn". Retrieved 16 June 2016.