1756 in Wales
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Events from the year 1756 in Wales.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George III)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 5 January - An article appears in The New York Mercury, criticising the work of Lewis Evans in identifying boundaries in his General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America.[1]
- Spring - Completion of Britain's longest single-span bridge (at this date), William Edwards' Old Bridge, Pontypridd, over the River Taff, at the third (or fourth) attempt.[2]
- Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls at Aberdyfi.[3]
Arts and literature
New books
Music
- Elis Roberts - "Argulus"
Births
- January - Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda (died 1826)
- 7 June - Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (died 1831)
- 23 June - Thomas Jones, mathematician (died 1807)
- 4 July - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer (died 1846)
- 18 November - Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (died 1837)
- date unknown
- Thomas Jones of Denbigh, minister and author (died 1820)
- Simon Lloyd, Methodist preacher (died 1836)
Deaths
- 12 June - Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?[1]
- 5 August - Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, landowner and politician, 56[6]
- 14 September - William Parry, antiquarian and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 69[7]
- 23 September - John Talbot, judge and MP for Brecon, about 43/44[8]
- 28 October - Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, 47
References
- Mary Gwyneth Lewis. "Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- Ted Ruddock (1 January 2000). Masonry Bridges, Viaducts and Aqueducts. Ashgate Variorum. p. 221. ISBN 978-0-86078-751-8.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Lewis (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-1765), poet and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- Bethan M. Jenkins (15 March 2017). Writing Wales in English: Between Wales and England -: Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century. University of Wales Press. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-78683-031-9.
- Gruffydd Glyn Evans. "Kadwaladr, Sion fl. 1750-1765, writer of ballads and interludes". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
- "WYNNE, Sir George (1700-56), of Leeswood Hall, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
- Cooper, Thompson (2004). "Parry, William (bap. 1687, d. 1756)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 April 2008.
- "TALBOT, Hon. John (c.1712-56), of Lincoln's Inn". Retrieved 16 June 2016.
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