1738 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1738 to Wales and its people.

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]
• Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Herring (from 15 January)^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris (until 28 August)^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox^[6][7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett^[8]

Events

• March – Howel Harris preaches in Monmouthshire for the first time.^[9]
• 14 May – John Wesley hears William Holland read from the work of Martin Luther, occasioning his own conversion.^[10]
• May – The Bala Eisteddfod takes place, chaired by Edward Wynne. Ellis Cadwaladr is winner of the bardic chair.^[11]
• unknown dates
  • A new building, designed by James Steer to house the Welsh Charity School is erected in London.
  • A Baptist church is founded at Welsh Neck in South Carolina, United States.^[12]
  • Morgan Edwards begins his career as a preacher.
  • Lawyer John Meredith is knighted and becomes High Sheriff of Brecknock.^[13]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Anne Penny – Select Poems from Mr. Gesner's Pastorals^[14]

Welsh language

• Newyddion Mawr Oddiwrth y Ser

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn – Caniadau … y Môr o Wydr^[15]

Births

• 4 June – Prince George, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1820)
• September (in Ireland) – Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff (died 1806)^[16]
• date unknown – David Williams, philosopher (died 1816)^[17]

Deaths

• January – Thomas Harley (of Kinsham), former MP for Radnorshire, about 63^[18]
• 12 June – Samuel Edwards, politician, about 70^[19]
• 28 August – John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, 58^[5]
• 1 September – Mathias Maurice, minister and author, 54^[20]
• 27 September – Sir Thomas Stradling, 6th Baronet, 28 (in a duel)^[21]

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. Thomas, Lawrence. "Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
6. Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
7. Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
8. "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
9. Richard Bennett (1962). The Early Life of Howell Harris. Banner of Truth Trust. p. 157.
10. "Holland, William (1711-1761)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
11. Elwyn Evan. "CADWALADR, ELLIS (fl. 1707-40), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
12. "Welsh Neck–Long Bluff–Society Hill Historic District, Darlington County (U.S. Hwy. 15, Society Hill vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 17 March 2014. and Accompanying map Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
13. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Meredith, Sir John (1714-1780), lawyer, of Brecon". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
14. William Llewelyn Davies. "Penny, Anne (fl. 1729-1780), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
15. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Williams, William (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
16. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Volume 3 (1830), p.447.
17. Geraint H. Jenkins (7 January 2012). Bard of Liberty: The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg. University of Wales Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-7083-2500-1.
18. "HARLEY, Thomas (c.1667-1738), of Kinsham Court, Herefs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
19. "EDWARDS, Samuel (c.1668-1738), of Frodesley, Salop". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
20. Robert Thomas Jenkins; George Thomas Streather. "Maurice, Mathias (1684-1738), Independent minister and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
21. Evan David Jones. "Stradling family of Glamorganshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2020.