1735 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1735 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Frederick
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 29 January - The Kemeys baronetcy of Cefn Mabli becomes extinct on the death of Sir Charles Kemeys, 4th Baronet.[1] His property at Cefn Mably is inherited by Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet.
- 20 April - Religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival.[2]
- September - Griffith Hughes records in his diary that he has broken his "knee pan" while travelling in Pennsylvania on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
- date unknown - Swansea-born Beau Nash appoints himself Master of Ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells, where a public house is later named after him.[3]
Arts and literature
New books
- Lewis Morris - Tlysau yr Hen Oesoedd
Births
- 1 March - John Price, librarian (died 1813)
- 24 June - Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis, posthumous daughter of Lord Edward Herbert (died 1786)[4]
- July - Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, peeress (died 1793)
Deaths
- 5 April - Sir Edward Stradling, 5th Baronet, MP for Cardiff and Sheriff of Glamorgan, 62[5]
- July - John Ellis, antiquarian, 61
- 14 December - Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St Asaph, 61[6]
References
- Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 3 March 2013
- Richard Bennett. "The Early Life of Howell Harris". The Revival Library. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- Phil Carradice (17 October 2011). "Beau Nash, the Welsh dandy". BBC - Wales History. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
- "Stradling family". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- Courtney, William Prideaux (1898). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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