1750 in Wales

List of events

* 1749
* 1748
* 1747
* 1746
* 1745

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* 1751
* 1752
* 1753
* 1754
* 1755

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Centuries:|

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* 17th
* 18th
* 19th
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Decades:|

* 1730s
* 1740s
* 1750s
* 1760s
* 1770s

See also:| List of years in Wales
Timeline of Welsh history

1750 in
Great Britain

Scotland
Elsewhere

Events from the year 1750 in Wales.

## Incumbents

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* Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton[3]
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan[1]
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne[1]
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet[1]
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry[1]

* Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce[4]
* Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset[5]
* Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond[6]
* Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor[7]

## Events

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* 9 January – At the age of 25, Henry Herbert the younger succeeds to his father's earldom of Pembroke.[8]
* "Disruption of 1750": Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland quarrel, resulting in a lasting split in the Welsh Methodist movement.[9]
* William Thomas begins his diary.[10]

## Arts and literature

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### New books

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#### English language

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* Griffith Hughes \- Natural History of Barbados[11]

#### Welsh language

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* David Jones - Egluryn Rhyfedd[12]
* Daniel Rowland \- Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un Cyfeiliornus

## Births

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* June - William Morgan, actuary (died 1833)[13]
* 14 November \- Edward Williams, clergyman and academic (died 1813)[14]
* 11 December \- Isaac Shelby, Welsh-descended American politician (born in US; died 1826)[15]
* unknown date \- Evan Davies, Independent minister (died 1806)[16]

## Deaths

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* 9 January \- Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 56[8]
* May - Sir Samuel Pennant, Lord Mayor of London[17]
* 22 May \- Matthew Pritchard, Roman Catholic bishop, 81[18]
* 29 November \- Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel[19]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695\. ISBN 9780806313146.
3. ^ Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
4. ^ Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
5. ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,. University Press. p. 255.
6. ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
7. ^ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 305.
8. ^ a b Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1825. p. 111.
9. ^ 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.
10. ^ 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.
11. ^ 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.
12. ^ Caernarvonshire Historical Society (1986). Transactions: (Trafodion). p. 89.
13. ^ The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. 1934. p. 154.
14. ^ "Williams, Edward (1750-1813)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
15. ^ Powell, William Stevens (1994). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Vol. 5, P-S. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2100-8.
16. ^ Williams, Griffith John. "Evan Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
17. ^ Thomas Richards. "PENNANT (and DOUGLAS-PENNANT) family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caerns.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
18. ^ Connell, Joan (1984). The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780-1850 : a study in internal politics. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 204\. ISBN 9780871691583.
19. ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "MANSEL family, of Oxwich, Penrice, and Margam abbey, Glam.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.