1736 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1736 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
• 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
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos

• Bishop of Bangor – Charles Cecil
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox (from 4 July)
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

• 17 April - Frederick, Prince of Wales, marries Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London.
• 4 July - Isaac Maddox is consecrated Bishop of St Asaph. Maddox continues to reside in south-east England and rarely visits the diocese.
• 28 July - John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, becomes Dean of Wells Cathedral in succession to Isaac Maddox.
• Thomas Frye paints the Prince of Wales for the Worshipful Company of Saddlers.
• date unknown
• Sixty soldiers are drowned after their vessel is wrecked on the Wolves rocks near Flat Holm; the incident leads to the building of a lighthouse on the island.
• Howell Harris opens a school.
• Fortunatus Wright marries Mary, daughter of William Bulkeley, in Dublin.

Arts and literature

New books

• Rees Ellis - "A Summer Carol"
• Anthony Ellys - A Plea for the Sacramental Test as best Security for the Church established, and very conducive to the Welfare of the State
• John Reynolds - Heraldry Displayed

Births

• 6 July - Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, soldier and politician, of Welsh ancestry (d. 1802)
• 10 July - David Jones, Church of England priest and an early supporter of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism (d. 1810)
• 31 August - David Ellis, clergyman, poet and transcriber of manuscripts (d. 1795)
• 22 October - John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (d. 1769)
• date unknown
• Charles Morgan, politician (d. 1787)
• Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician (d. 1807)

Deaths

• June - Edward Prideaux Gwyn, about 38
• November? - Griffith Wynn, translator, about 76
• 22 November - Thomas Lewis, politician, owner of The Van estate, 56/57
• date unknown - Edward Kemys, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, about 43

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