1754 in Wales

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* 1752
* 1751
* 1750
* 1749

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* 1755
* 1756
* 1757
* 1758
* 1759

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Decades:|

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

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

1754 in
Great Britain

Scotland
Elsewhere

Events from the year 1754 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 (until 26 August);[3] Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth (from 6 November)[4]
* 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 William Owen, 4th Baronet[1]
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry[1]
* Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce[5]
* Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset[6]
* Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond[7]
* Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys[8]

## Events

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* 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.[9]

## Arts and literature

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### New books

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* Richard Rees – Collected sermons, published by Philip Charles[10]
* Ben Simon (ed.) – Collected works of Dafydd ap Gwilym[11]
* Mêr Difinyddiaeth Iachus (second edition, with a preface by Morgan Jones)[12]

### Music

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* William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 2[13]

## Births

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* 28 October – John Griffiths, medical practitioner and surgeon in the Royal Household (died 1822)
* 25 November – William Parry, minister and author (died 1819)[14]
* date unknown – Charles Hassall, surveyor (died 1814)[15]
* earliest likely year – Jane Cave, poet (died 1812)[16]

## Deaths

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* 10 January – Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83[17]
* 20 February – John Owen, MP, about 52[18]
* 17 May – Richard Herbert, politician, 49/50[19]
* 26 August – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, 68[20]

## 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. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612\. ISBN 9780806313146.
5. ^ Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
6. ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,. University Press. p. 255.
7. ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
8. ^ "Ellys, Anthony" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
9. ^ Geraint Bowen. "Jenkin, John (Ioan Siengcin; 1716-1796), poet and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
10. ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Rees, Richard (1707-1749), Arminian Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
11. ^ "Simon, Ben". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
12. ^ John Dyfnallt Owen. "Jones, Morgan (1717?-1780), Congregational minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
13. ^ 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.
14. ^ 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.
15. ^ John Chapman (31 July 1992). A guide to parliamentary enclosures in Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 166\. ISBN 978-0-7083-1111-0.
16. ^ Roger Lonsdale; Roger H. Lonsdale (1990). Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. Oxford University Press. p. 373\. ISBN 978-0-19-282775-3.
17. ^ "LEWIS, Erasmus (1671-1754), of Abercothi, Carm. and St. James's, Westminster". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
18. ^ 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.
19. ^ "HERBERT, Richard (1704-54)". History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). Retrieved 12 December 2018.
20. ^ "POWLETT, Charles II, Marquess of Winchester (1685-1754), of Hackwood, nr. Basingstoke, Hants". History of Parliament Online (1690–1715). Retrieved 3 October 2018.