1750s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1750 - 1759 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales
**Frederick, Prince of Wales (to March 31, 1751)
**George, Prince of Wales (from April 20, 1751)
*Princess of Wales - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (to March 31, 1751) (afterwards Dowager Princess of Wales)

Events

1750
*"Disruption of 1750": Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland quarrel, resulting in a lasting split in the Welsh Methodist movement.
1751
*April 20 - George, eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, succeeds his father as Prince of Wales.
*September - Richard Morris founds the Cymmrodorion Society in London.
*Richard Price Thelwall inherits his brother's Caernarfonshire estate.
1752
*November 9 - Richard Trevor becomes Bishop of Durham.
*Howell Harris founds the "Teulu Trefeca" ("The Trefeca family")
*Frances, mother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, purchases the Mathafarn estate on her son's behalf.
*Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, builds New Hawarden Castle.
1753
*Lewis Morris is briefly imprisoned at Cardigan when the local squires challenge his rights as the Crown's local representative to mine for lead. As a result of the controversy, Morris visits London for the first time.
1754
*April-May - In the British general election, newly-elected MPs include Robert Wynne at Caernarvon Boroughs and Benjamin Bathurst at Monmouth Boroughs.
1756
*Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls at Aberdovey.
1757
*George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, takes out a lease on Esgair-mwyn lead mine.
*Daines Barrington is appointed judge of the Merioneth, Caernarvonshire and Anglesey circuit (Court of Great Sessions).
1758
*April - Goronwy Owen becomes headmaster of the grammar school attached to William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia.
*The Llangibby estate passes into the hands of the Addams-Williams family when the original Williams line dies out.

Arts and literature

New books

1750
*Griffith Hughes - "Natural History of Barbados"
*Daniel Rowland - "Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un Cyfeiliornus"1752
*Theophilus Evans - "A History of Modern Enthusiasm"1757
*John Dyer - "The Fleece"
*Elizabeth Griffith - "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances"
*Joseph Harris - "An Essay Upon Money and Coins"
*Joshua Thomas - "Tystiolaeth y Credadyn"

Music

1751
*William Williams (Pantycelyn) - "Hosanna i Fab Dafydd", part 11754
*William Williams (Pantycelyn) - "Hosanna i Fab Dafydd", part 21755
*Morgan Rhys - "Golwg o Ben Nebo, ar Wlad yr Addewid" (hymns)1756
*Elis Roberts - "Argulus"1757
*Elis Roberts - "Jeils"1759
*William Williams (Pantycelyn) - "Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau Duwiol"

Births

1750
*June - William Morgan, actuary (d. 1833)1751
*January 22 - David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr), poet (d. 1827)
*October 15 - David Samwell, naval surgeon and companion of Captain Cook (d. 1798)1752
*January 2 - Nicholas Owen, clergyman and antiquary (d. 1811)
*January 18 - Josiah Boydell, painter (d. 1817)
*March - Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (d. 1824)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist (d. 1828)1754
*"date unknown" - Charles Hassall, surveyor (d. 1814)1755
*February 22 - Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (d. 1843)
*July 5 - Sarah Siddons, actress (d. 1831)
*October 14 - Thomas Charles of Bala, clergyman (d. 1814)1756
*June 7 - Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (d. 1831)
*June 23 - Thomas Jones, mathematician (d. 1807)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Jones of Denbigh, minister and author (d. 1820)1757
*"date unknown" - Sir Thomas Foley, admiral (d. 1833)1758
*August - Sir Thomas Picton, soldier (d. 1815)1759
*August 7 - William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (d. 1835)
*October 18 - Theophilus Jones, historian (d. 1812)

Deaths

1750
*November 29 - Bussy Mansell, 4th Baron Mansell1751
*March 31 - Frederick, Prince of Wales, 44
*"date unknown" - Thomas Mathews, admiral, 751752
*May 31 - "Madam" Sidney Griffith, Methodist supporter1754
*January 10 - Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83
*March - Henry Vaughan, Radnorshire landowner, 33 (murdered)
*July 12 - Zachariah Williams, inventor, 811756
*"date unknown" - Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?1757
*December - John Dyer, poet, 561758
*January 24 - William Wogan, religious writer, 79
*March 24 - Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 531759
*August 11 - John Heylyn, Welsh-descended clergyman, 74
*November 2 - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50
*"date unknown" - Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62