1733 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1733 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (until 7 May); George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley (from 14 June)
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet (from 21 June)
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos

• Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner (from 23 January)
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

• 21 June - The post of Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire is combined with that of Custos Rotulorum of Denbighshire.
• 29 November - Charles Talbot is appointed Lord Chancellor.
• 5 December - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, is raised to the peerage.
• date unknown
• Legal proceedings in the Welsh courts to be conducted in the English language.
• John Myddelton, politician, inherits the estates of his brother Robert, including Chirk Castle.

Arts and literature

New books

• "Gwinfrid Shones" (popular ballad)
• William Wynn writes his first poem, while a student at Oxford.

Births

• March - John Lloyd, Rector of Caerwys, antiquary (died 1793)

Deaths

• 22 January - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, about 66
• 2 February - Robert Price, judge, 80
• 28 February - John Morgan, poet, 45
• 7 May - George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 66/67
• June/July - Michael Pritchard, poet, 24
• date unknown - Robert Myddelton, owner of the Myddelton estates

References