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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1738 to
Wales and
its people .
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey ,
Caernarvonshire ,
Flintshire ,
Merionethshire ,
Montgomeryshire ) –
George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
[1]
[2]
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan –
Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
[3]
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire –
Thomas Morgan
[1]
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire –
John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
[1]
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire –
Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire –
Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
[1]
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire –
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
[1]
Bishop of Bangor –
Thomas Herring (from 15 January)
[4]
Bishop of Llandaff –
John Harris (until 28 August)
[5]
Bishop of St Asaph –
Isaac Maddox
[6]
[7]
Bishop of St Davids –
Nicholas Clagett
[8]
Events
March –
Howel Harris preaches in Monmouthshire for the first time.
[9]
14 May –
John Wesley hears William Holland read from the work of
Martin Luther , occasioning his own conversion.
[10]
May – The Bala Eisteddfod takes place, chaired by Edward Wynne. Ellis Cadwaladr is winner of the bardic chair.
[11]
unknown dates
Arts and literature
New books
English language
Welsh language
Newyddion Mawr Oddiwrth y Ser
Music
Births
Deaths
January –
Thomas Harley (of Kinsham) , former MP for Radnorshire, about 63
[18]
12 June –
Samuel Edwards , politician, about 70
[19]
28 August –
John Harris , Bishop of Llandaff, 58
[5]
1 September –
Mathias Maurice , minister and author, 54
[20]
27 September –
Sir Thomas Stradling, 6th Baronet , 28 (in a duel)
[21]
References
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a
b
c
d
e
J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695.
ISBN
9780806313146 .
^ Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed . H. Woodfall. p. 235.
^ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales . University Press. 1854. p. 108.
^
a
b Thomas, Lawrence.
"Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 3 October 2021 .
^ Guides and Handbooks . Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
^ Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders . p. 197.
^
"Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ Richard Bennett (1962). The Early Life of Howell Harris . Banner of Truth Trust. p. 157.
^
"Holland, William (1711-1761)" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales.
^ Elwyn Evan.
"CADWALADR, ELLIS (fl. 1707-40), poet" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018 .
^
"Welsh Neck–Long Bluff–Society Hill Historic District, Darlington County (U.S. Hwy. 15, Society Hill vicinity)" . National Register Properties in South Carolina . South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 17 March 2014 . and
Accompanying map
Archived 3 March 2016 at the
Wayback Machine
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins.
"Meredith, Sir John (1714-1780), lawyer, of Brecon" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2021 .
^ William Llewelyn Davies.
"Penny, Anne (fl. 1729-1780), author" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2021 .
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts.
"Williams, William (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2021 .
^
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage , Volume 3 (1830), p.447.
^ Geraint H. Jenkins (7 January 2012).
Bard of Liberty: The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg . University of Wales Press. p. 80.
ISBN
978-0-7083-2500-1 .
^
"HARLEY, Thomas (c.1667-1738), of Kinsham Court, Herefs" . History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 4 August 2019 .
^
"EDWARDS, Samuel (c.1668-1738), of Frodesley, Salop" . History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 31 December 2018 .
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins; George Thomas Streather.
"Maurice, Mathias (1684-1738), Independent minister and writer" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2020 .
^ Evan David Jones.
"Stradling family of Glamorganshire" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2020 .