1746 in Wales

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Events from the year 1746 in Wales.

Incumbents

For Great Britain incumbents, see 1746 in Great Britain § 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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert^[5][6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor^[8]

Events

• The Wales and Berwick Act 1746 is passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. It specifies that all future laws applying to England will also be applicable to Wales and Berwick-upon-Tweed.^[9] It is finally repealed in its entirety by the Interpretation Act 1978.
• William Edwards begins his first attempt at building a bridge over the River Taff at Pontypridd.^[10]
• Construction of The Cathedral School, Llandaff, and the "Italian Temple", both designed by John Wood, the Elder, is completed.^[11]
• Sidney Griffith joins the Methodist movement, after hearing a sermon by Peter Williams.^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• Anna Williams - Life of the Emperor Julian (translation from the French)^[13]

Music

Births

• January - Thomas Totty, admiral (died 1802)^[14]
• 28 September - William Jones, philologist (died 1794)^[15]

Deaths

• 7 May - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet, politician and literary editor, 68^[16]
• 21 May - Lewis Morris, Welsh-descended Governor of New Jersey, 74^[17]

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. Andrew Coltee Ducarel; Timothy Hutton; James Raine; Matthew Hutton (1843). The Correspondence of Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. J. B. Nichols and son. p. 41.
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. Browne Willis; Edward Edwards; Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1801). Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, Considerably Enlarged and Brought Down to the Present Time. John Painter. p. 154.
8. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 305.
9. Great Britain (1765). Statutes at Large ...: (43 v.) ... From Magna charta to 1800. p. 125.
10. David Yeomans (19 January 2016). How Structures Work: Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings. John Wiley & Sons. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-119-01227-6.
11. "Llandaff - A City within a City". Cardiffians. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
12. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Griffith, Sidney, currently known as 'Madam Griffith' (died 1752), Methodist and associate of Howel Harris". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
13. Gwyn Jones (1959). "Williams, Anna (1706-1783), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
14. Banks, Joseph (2008). The Indian and Pacific correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820. London: Pickering & Chatto. p. 7. ISBN 1851968350.
15. Edgerton, Franklin (2002) [1936]. "Sir William Jones, 1746-1794". In Sebeok, Thomas A. (ed.). Portrait of Linguists. Vol. 1. Thoemmes Press. pp. 1–17. ISBN 978-1-441-15874-1.
16. William Martial Myddelton. Chirk Castle Accounts A.d. 1666-1753. Manchester University Press. p. 371.
17. Dorwart, Jeffery (2008). Invasion and insurrection : security, defense, and war in the Delaware Valley, 1621-1815. Newark Del: University of Delaware Press. p. 216. ISBN 9780874130362.