1754 in Wales

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Events from the year 1754 in Wales.

Incumbent[]

Events[]

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

  • Richard Rees - Collected sermons, published by Philip Charles[2]
  • Ben Simon (ed.) - Collected works of Dafydd ap Gwilym[3]
  • Mêr Difinyddiaeth Iachus (second edition, with a preface by Morgan Jones)[4]

Music[]

  • William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 2[5]

Births[]

  • 25 November - William Parry, minister and author (died 1819)[6]
  • date unknown - , surveyor (died 1814)[7]
  • earliest likely year - Jane Cave, poet (died 1812)[8]

Deaths[]

  • 10 January - , writer and civil servant, 83[9]
  • 20 February - John Owen, MP, about 52[10]
  • March - , Radnorshire landowner, 33 (murdered)

References[]

  1. ^ Geraint Bowen. "Jenkin, John (Ioan Siengcin; 1716-1796), poet and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  2. ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Rees, Richard (1707-1749), Arminian Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Ben Simon". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
  4. ^ John Dyfnallt Owen. "Jones, Morgan (1717?-1780), Congregational minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  5. ^ Gwilym Lleyn (1869). Cambrian bibliography: containing an account of the books printed in the Welsh language, or relating to Wales, from the year 1546 to the end of the eighteenth century; with biographical notices. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. pp. 440.
  6. ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Parry, William (1754-1819), Independent minister and tutor, and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  7. ^ John Chapman (31 July 1992). A guide to parliamentary enclosures in Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-7083-1111-0.
  8. ^ Roger Lonsdale; Roger H. Lonsdale (1990). Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. Oxford University Press. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-19-282775-3.
  9. ^ "LEWIS, Erasmus (1671-1754), of Abercothi, Carm. and St. James's, Westminster". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  10. ^ Jacob Youde William Lloyd (1885). The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog: And the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd. T. Richards. p. 285.
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