1741 in Wales

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Events from the year 1741 in Wales.

Incumbent[]

• Monarch – George II

Events[]

• June - In the general election, the seat of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet at Denbighshire is targeted by the government. Sir Watkin wins by 1352 to 933, but the sheriff, a member of the Salusbury family, disallows 594 of his votes and returns a cousin of Salusbury, John Myddelton of Chirk. Sir Watkin is elected for Montgomeryshire instead.^[1]
• Carpenter is converted and quickly becomes the most important Calvinistic Methodist exhorter in the Llyn peninsula.
• Lewis Morris resumes his survey of Welsh ports on behalf of the Navy Office.

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

• - Newyddion Mawr Oddiwrth y Ser (vol. 3) ^[2]

Music[]

• - Hymnau Duwiol o Gasgliad Gwyr Eglwysig M.J. ac E.W.
• David Owen composes Dafydd y Garreg Wen on his deathbed, according to tradition

Births[]

• 27 January - Hester Thrale, diarist and friend of Dr Johnson (died 1821)^[3]
• 20 August - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (died 1811)^[4]
• 3 September - Owen Jones, antiquary (died 1814)

Deaths[]

• May - , publisher^[5]
• August - David Owen, 29 ("David of the White Rock"), harpist^[6]
• date unknown
  • , poet, 41?
  • Edward Owen, artist^[7]
  • Robert Roberts, theologian, 61?

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