1755 in Wales
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Events from the year 1755 in Wales.
Incumbent[]
- Monarch – George II
Events[]
- Following the death of his wife in this year, Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) goes to live at the home of Madam Bridget Bevan.
- The Brecknockshire Agricultural Society is formed.
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
- Rules of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion are published.[1]
Music[]
- Morgan Rhys - Golwg o Ben Nebo, ar Wlad yr Addewid (collection of hymns)[2]
Births[]
July:Sarah Siddons
- 22 February - Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (died 1843)
- 9 May - Wilmot Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Lisburne, landowner (died 1820)[3]
- 5 July - Sarah Siddons, actress (d. 1831)[4]
- 14 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, clergyman (died 1814)
- 21 October - Caleb Hillier Parry, Welsh-descended physician (died 1822)
- 18 November - Rev. William Jones (died 1821)[5]
Deaths[]
- 30 June - Edward Wynne, lawyer and landowner[6]
- 12 July - , inventor, 81[7]
- date unknown - John Owen, chancellor of Bangor
References[]
- ^ "Our History". Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- ^ John Julian (1892). A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 959.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Cecil John Layton Price. "Siddons, Sarah (1755-1831), actress". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
- ^ Jenkins, Robert Thomas (2007). "Jones, William (1755–1821), Evangelical cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
- ^ Jones, Evan David. "WYNN family, of Bodewryd, Anglesey". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
- ^ James Boswell (1807). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. W. Andrews and L. Blake. pp. 215–.
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