- 1750s in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1750 - 1759 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
*
Prince of Wales
**Frederick, Prince of Wales (to March 31, 1751)
**George, Prince of Wales (from April 20, 1751)
*Princess of Wales - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (to March 31, 1751) (afterwards Dowager Princess of Wales)Events
1750
*"Disruption of 1750":Howell Harris andDaniel Rowland quarrel, resulting in a lasting split in the Welsh Methodist movement.1751
*April 20 - George, eldest son ofFrederick, Prince of Wales , succeeds his father asPrince of Wales .
*September - Richard Morris founds the Cymmrodorion Society in London.
*Richard Price Thelwall inherits his brother's Caernarfonshire estate.1752
*November 9 - Richard Trevor becomesBishop of Durham .
*Howell Harris founds the "Teulu Trefeca" ("The Trefeca family")
*Frances, mother ofSir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet , purchases theMathafarn estate on her son's behalf.
*Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet , builds New Hawarden Castle.1753
*Lewis Morris is briefly imprisoned at Cardigan when the local squires challenge his rights as the Crown's local representative to mine for lead. As a result of the controversy, Morris visits London for the first time.1754
*April-May - In the British general election, newly-elected MPs includeRobert Wynne at Caernarvon Boroughs and Benjamin Bathurst at Monmouth Boroughs.1756
*Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls atAberdovey .1757
*George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis , takes out a lease on Esgair-mwyn lead mine.
*Daines Barrington is appointed judge of the Merioneth, Caernarvonshire and Anglesey circuit (Court of Great Sessions).1758
*April - Goronwy Owen becomes headmaster of the grammar school attached toWilliam and Mary College ,Williamsburg, Virginia .
*TheLlangibby estate passes into the hands of the Addams-Williams family when the original Williams line dies out.Arts and literature
New books
1750
*Griffith Hughes - "Natural History of Barbados"
*Daniel Rowland - "Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un Cyfeiliornus"1752
*Theophilus Evans - "A History of Modern Enthusiasm"1757
*John Dyer - "The Fleece"
*Elizabeth Griffith - "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances"
*Joseph Harris - "An Essay Upon Money and Coins"
*Joshua Thomas - "Tystiolaeth y Credadyn"Music
1751
*William Williams (Pantycelyn) - "Hosanna i Fab Dafydd", part 11754
*William Williams (Pantycelyn) - "Hosanna i Fab Dafydd", part 21755
*Morgan Rhys - "Golwg o Ben Nebo, ar Wlad yr Addewid" (hymns)1756
*Elis Roberts - "Argulus"1757
*Elis Roberts - "Jeils"1759
*William Williams (Pantycelyn) - "Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau Duwiol"Births
1750
*June - William Morgan, actuary (d. 1833)1751
*January 22 -David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) , poet (d. 1827)
*October 15 -David Samwell , naval surgeon and companion of Captain Cook (d. 1798)1752
*January 2 -Nicholas Owen , clergyman and antiquary (d. 1811)
*January 18 -Josiah Boydell , painter (d. 1817)
*March - Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (d. 1824)
*"date unknown" -Thomas Assheton Smith I , industrialist (d. 1828)1754
*"date unknown" -Charles Hassall , surveyor (d. 1814)1755
*February 22 -Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (d. 1843)
*July 5 -Sarah Siddons , actress (d. 1831)
*October 14 -Thomas Charles of Bala, clergyman (d. 1814)1756
*June 7 - Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (d. 1831)
*June 23 - Thomas Jones, mathematician (d. 1807)
*"date unknown" -Thomas Jones of Denbigh , minister and author (d. 1820)1757
*"date unknown" - Sir Thomas Foley, admiral (d. 1833)1758
*August - SirThomas Picton , soldier (d. 1815)1759
*August 7 -William Owen Pughe , lexicographer (d. 1835)
*October 18 -Theophilus Jones , historian (d. 1812)Deaths
1750
*November 29 -Bussy Mansell, 4th Baron Mansell 1751
*March 31 -Frederick, Prince of Wales , 44
*"date unknown" -Thomas Mathews , admiral, 751752
*May 31 - "Madam"Sidney Griffith , Methodist supporter1754
*January 10 -Erasmus Lewis , writer and civil servant, 83
*March - Henry Vaughan, Radnorshire landowner, 33 (murdered)
*July 12 -Zachariah Williams , inventor, 811756
*"date unknown" - Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?1757
*December -John Dyer , poet, 561758
*January 24 - William Wogan, religious writer, 79
*March 24 -Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet , 531759
*August 11 -John Heylyn , Welsh-descended clergyman, 74
*November 2 -Charles Hanbury Williams , diplomat and satirist, 50
*"date unknown" -Isaac Maddox , Bishop of St Asaph, 62
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