1774 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use Welsh English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Robert Clive (until 2 November)[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer[11][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – John Ewer (until 28 October)[12] John Moore[13]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington[14]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley[15]
- Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (until 2 June); James Yorke (from 26 June)[16]
Events
- July - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales.[17]
- unknown dates
- John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham.[18]
- An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff.[19]
- Construction work is completed on Morris Castle, "Wales's first block of flats".[20]
- Edward Jones, an "exhorter" at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, and a lay preacher, begins holding Welsh-language services in Cock Lane, Smithfield, London.[21]
Arts and literature
New books
- Hugh Hughes - Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (translation of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life
- Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis[22]
- Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - Cydymaith yr Hwsmon
Music
- William Williams Pantycelyn - Ychydig Hymnau (hymns)
Paintings
- Thomas Jones - The Bard
- Richard Wilson - Llyn y Cau, Cadair Idris
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Births
- 16 January - Daniel Evans, independent minister (died 1835)
- May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841)
- 24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844)[23]
- date unknown - Sir John Waters, military commander (died 1842)[24]
Deaths
- 13 January - John Pugh Pryse, politician, 34[25]
- 4 July - William Price, High Sheriff of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire, 84
- 28 October - John Ewer, Bishop of Bangor, about 70[26]
- date unknown
- Rowland Jones, philologist, 57[27]
- Dafydd Nicolas, poet
References
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- ↑ Griffiths, Barrie (1999). A Spy for Wellington: Sir John William Waters (1774-1842), Cefn Cribwr's Forgotten Hero.
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