1754 in Wales

Events from the year 1754 in Wales.

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See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1754 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

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 (until 26 August);^[3] Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth (from 6 November)^[4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce^[5]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys^[8]

Events

• April–May – In the British general election, newly elected MPs include Robert Wynne at Caernarvon Boroughs and Benjamin Bathurst at Monmouth Boroughs.
• John Jenkin (Ioan Siengcin) opens a Welsh school at Nevern.^[9]

Arts and literature

New books

• Richard Rees – Collected sermons, published by Philip Charles^[10]
• Ben Simon (ed.) – Collected works of Dafydd ap Gwilym^[11]
• Mêr Difinyddiaeth Iachus (second edition, with a preface by Morgan Jones)^[12]

Music

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 2^[13]

Births

• 28 October – John Griffiths, medical practitioner and surgeon in the Royal Household (died 1822)
• 25 November – William Parry, minister and author (died 1819)^[14]
• date unknown – Charles Hassall, surveyor (died 1814)^[15]
• earliest likely year – Jane Cave, poet (died 1812)^[16]

Deaths

• 10 January – Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83^[17]
• 20 February – John Owen, MP, about 52^[18]
• 17 May – Richard Herbert, politician, 49/50^[19]
• 26 August – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, 68^[20]