1750 in Wales
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Events from the year 1750 in Wales.
Incumbents
Events
- "Disruption of 1750": Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland quarrel, resulting in a lasting split in the Welsh Methodist movement.[1]
- William Thomas begins his diary.[2]
Arts and literature
English language
- Griffith Hughes - Natural History of Barbados[3]
Welsh language
- David Jones - Egluryn Rhyfedd[4]
- 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)[5]
Deaths
- 9 January - Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 56[6]
- May - Sir Samuel Pennant, Lord Mayor of London[7]
- 29 November - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel[8]
References
- Gareth Elwyn Jones; Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology Gareth Jones (28 October 1994). Modern Wales: A Concise History. Cambridge University Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-521-46945-6.
- William Thomas (1995). The Diary of William Thomas of Michaelston-super-Ely, Near St. Fagans, Glamorgan, 1762-1795. South Wales Record Society and South Glamorgan County Council Libraries & Arts Department. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-9525961-0-3.
- Friedrich August Flückiger; Daniel Hanbury (1874). Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met with in Great Britain and British India. Macmillan. pp. 569.
- Caernarvonshire Historical Society (1986). Transactions: (Trafodion). p. 89.
- Powell, William Stevens (1994). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Vol. 5, P-S. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2100-8.
- Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1825. p. 111.
- Thomas Richards. "PENNANT (and DOUGLAS-PENNANT) family, of Penrhyn, Llandygâi, Caerns". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- William Llewelyn Davies. "MANSEL family, of Oxwich, Penrice, and Margam abbey, Glam". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
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