1742 in Wales

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Events from the year 1742 in Wales.

Incumbents

• 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 – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos^[1]

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, 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 – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Herring^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert^[5][6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox^[7][8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett (until 2 August)^[9]

Trevor Hall, rebuilt 1742-3

Events

• 23 February – John Myddelton completes his term as MP for Denbighshire.^[10]
• July – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet vacates his Montgomeryshire seat when the result of the previous year's election for Denbighshire is overturned in his favour.
• Howell Harris, Daniel Rowland and their converts form the Methodist Association in Wales. One of these, William Prichard, is exiled with his family from Glasfryn Fawr and relocates to Plas Penmynydd, Anglesey.
• Rebuilding of Trevor Hall, Denbighshire, begins, following the marriage of Mary and John Lloyd (Pentrehobin).^[11]

Arts and literature

New books

• Richard Farrington – Twenty Sermons
• Morgan John Lewis – Sail, Dibenion, a Rheolau'r Societies^[12]

Music

• John Parry – Antient British Music^[13]

Births

• 9 February – David Davies, clergyman and author (died 1819)^[14]
• 18 February – John Morgan (of Dderw), politician (died 1792)^[15]
• 26 September – Thomas Jones, landscape painter (died 1803)^[16]
• 3 December – Sir Erasmus Gower, naval commander (died 1814)^[17]
• probable – Watkin Williams, politician (died 1808)

Deaths

• January – Hugh Williams (of Chester), politician, 47?^[18]
• 2 March (buried) – Moses Williams, antiquarian scholar, 57
• 6 March – Arthur Bevan, MP, about 54^[19]
• June – Jenkin Jones, Arminian clergyman, about 40^[20]
• 8 June – Robert Jones, landowner

References

1. 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. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 108.
5. "Gilbert, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10692. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. 1939. p. 142.
7. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
8. Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
9. "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
10. "Myddelton, John (1685-1747), of Chirk Castle, Denb". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
11. "Trevor Hall". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
12. Sail, dibenion, a rheolau, 'r societies, neu'r Cyfarfodydd neullduol a ddechreuassant ymgynnull yn diweddar yn Nghymru. Felix Farley. 1742.
13. "File NLW MS 12393D. – John Parry ('Y Telynor Dall')". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
14. Horn, Pamela (2004). "Davies, David (1742–1819)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7229. Retrieved 15 July 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
15. Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The Parliamentary History of Wales. Priv. print. for the author by E. Davis and Bell. pp. 26, 130. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
16. Egerton, Judy, "Thomas Jones (1742–1803)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
17. Sir Erasmus GOWER (1815). Biographical Memoir of Sir E. Gower, etc. p. 41.
18. "Williams, Hugh (?1694-1742), of Chester". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
19. "BEVAN, Arthur (?1687-1742), of Laugharne, Carm". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
20.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Jones, Jenkin". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.