1736 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1736 to Wales and its people.

← 1735 1734 1733 1732 1731 1736 in Wales → 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1736 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick
• Princess of Wales - Augusta

Events

• 17 April - The Prince of Wales marries Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London.[1]
• 4 July - Isaac Maddox is consecrated Bishop of St Asaph.[2]
• 28 July - John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, becomes Dean of Wells Cathedral in succession to Isaac Maddox.[3]
• Thomas Frye paints the Prince of Wales for the Worshipful Company of Saddlers.[4]
• date unknown
  • Sixty soldiers are drowned after their vessel is wrecked on the Wolves rocks near Flat Holm; the incident leads to the building of a lighthouse on the island.[5]
  • Howell Harris opens a school.
  • Fortunatus Wright marries Mary, daughter of William Bulkeley, in Dublin.

Arts and literature

New books

• Anthony Ellys - A Plea for the Sacramental Test as best Security for the Church established, and very conducive to the Welfare of the State

Births

• 6 July - Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, soldier and politician, of Welsh ancestry (d. 1802)
• 10 July - David Jones, Church of England priest and an early supporter of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism (d. 1810)
• 31 August - David Ellis, clergyman, poet and transcriber of manuscripts (d. 1795)
• 22 October - John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (d. 1769)
• date unknown
  • Charles Morgan, politician (d. 1787)
  • Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician (d. 1807)

Deaths

• June - Edward Prideaux Gwyn, about 38[6]
• November? - Griffith Wynn, translator, about 76[7]
• 22 November - Thomas Lewis, politician, owner of The Van estate, 56/57[8]
• date unknown - Edward Kemys, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, about 43[9]

References

1. The Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland and the Colonies: For the Year .... 1833. 1833. p. 4.
2. Paul de Rapin-Thoyras (1747). The History of England. J. and P. Knapton. p. 282.
3. Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1914). Reports. p. 531.
4. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Katharine Baetjer (2009). British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-58839-348-7.
5. Chaplin, Captain W.R. (1960). The History of Flat Holm Lighthouse. Reprinted from the American Neptune V. XX.
6. "GWYN, Edward Prideaux (?1698-1736), of Llansannor, Glam. and Forde Abbey, Dorset". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
7. William Llewelyn Davies. "WYNN, GRIFFITH (1669?-1736), cleric and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
8. "LEWIS, Thomas (c.1679-1736), of Soberton, Hants". History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). Retrieved 9 August 2018.
9. "KEMYS, Edward (c.1693-1736), of Pertholey, Mon". History of Parliament. Retrieved 21 February 2019.