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Incumbents

Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
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
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock (until 8 November); Charles Cecil (from 15 January)
Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris
Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner
Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

March – In a report to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, missionary Griffith Hughes claims to have travelled over 1,100 miles in the Pennsylvania region in the course of his preaching.
30 March – First entry in the diary of William Bulkeley.
date unknown
- Original construction (in stone) of Cilewent Farmhouse, now located at St Fagans National History Museum.
- Daniel Rowland marries Eleanor Davies of Caer-llugest and is ordained a deacon.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

Edmund Curll – The Life of Robert Price … one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas

Welsh language

Simon Thomas – Athrawiaethau Difinyddawl

Births

20 January – Robert Morris, Welsh-born American merchant (died 1806)
15 April – Evan Lloyd, poet (died 1776)
3 July – Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (died 1794)
24 October – Thomas Henry, apothecary (died 1816)

Deaths

14 June
- Francis Gwyn, politician, 85
- John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?
13 July – Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63
October – Thomas Lloyd, lexicographer, 61?
26 December – Salusbury Lloyd, politician,
date unknown – Elisha Beadles, South Wales-based Quaker leader, 74?

References

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Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
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.
E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (23 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 108.
Thomas, Lawrence. "Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
Courtney, William Prideaux (1898). "Tanner, Thomas (1674–1735)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
"Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Hughes, Griffith (fl. 1707-1750), cleric and naturalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
Elizabeth Dew Roberts (1936). Mr. Bulkeley and the Pirate: A Welsh Diarist of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press, H. Milford. p. 4.
St Fagans: National History Museum - Cilewent Farmhouse Archived 8 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 5 May 2013
Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rowland, Daniel (1713-1790), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
"Curll, Edmund". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
William Llewelyn Davies. "Thomas, Nicholas (died 1741), printer and publisher, Carmarthen (and Hereford)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
Sambrook, James (2004). "Lloyd, Evan (1734–1776)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. G. Woodfall. 1828. p. 98.
Walter Thomas Morgan. "Gwyn, Francis (1648?-1734), politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
Robert Stephen. "HANBURY family, of Pontypool industrialists". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
William Llewelyn Davies. "Wynne, Ellis (1670/1-1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
Jones, Evan David. "Lloyd, Thomas (1673?-1734), cleric and lexicologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
"LLOYD, Salusbury (d.1734), of Leadbrook, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
Thomas Mardy Rees. "Beadles, Elisha (1670-1734), Quaker and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

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