1734 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1734 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 Sherlock (until 8 November);[4] Charles Cecil (from 15 January)[5]
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris[6]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner[7][8]
- Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett[9]
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.[10]
- 30 March – First entry in the diary of William Bulkeley.[11]
- date unknown
- Original construction (in stone) of Cilewent Farmhouse, now located at St Fagans National History Museum.[12]
- Daniel Rowland marries Eleanor Davies of Caer-llugest and is ordained a deacon.[13]
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[14]
Welsh language
- Simon Thomas – Athrawiaethau Difinyddawl[15]
Births
- 20 January – Robert Morris, Welsh-born American merchant (died 1806)
- 15 April – Evan Lloyd, poet (died 1776)[16]
- 3 July – Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (died 1794)[17]
- 24 October – Thomas Henry, apothecary (died 1816)
Deaths
- 14 June
- Francis Gwyn, politician, 85[18]
- John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?[19]
- 13 July – Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63[20]
- October – Thomas Lloyd, lexicographer, 61?[21]
- 26 December – Salusbury Lloyd, politician,[22]
- date unknown – Elisha Beadles, South Wales-based Quaker leader, 74?[23]
References
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