Events from the year 1750 in Wales.

Incumbents

Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry

1750 in Wales

Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce

Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset

Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond

Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor

Events

9 January – At the age of 25, Henry Herbert the younger succeeds to his father's earldom of Pembroke. "Disruption of 1750": Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland quarrel, resulting in a lasting split in the Welsh Methodist movement. William Thomas begins his diary.

1750 in Wales

Arts and literature

New books

English language

Griffith Hughes - Natural History of Barbados

Welsh language

David Jones - Egluryn Rhyfedd

Daniel Rowland - Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un Cyfeiliornus

Births

June - William Morgan, actuary (died 1833) 14 November - Edward Williams, clergyman and academic (died 1813) 11 December - Isaac Shelby, Welsh-descended American politician (born in US; died 1826) unknown date - Evan Davies, Independent minister (died 1806)

1750 in Wales

Deaths

9 January - Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 56

May - Sir Samuel Pennant, Lord Mayor of London

22 May - Matthew Pritchard, Roman Catholic bishop, 81

29 November - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel

References

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