1738 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1738 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 – Thomas Herring (from 15 January)
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris (until 28 August)
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

• March – Howel Harris preaches in Monmouthshire for the first time.
• 14 May – John Wesley hears William Holland read from the work of Martin Luther, occasioning his own conversion.
• May – The Bala Eisteddfod takes place, chaired by Edward Wynne. Ellis Cadwaladr is winner of the bardic chair.
• unknown dates
• A new building, designed by James Steer to house the Welsh Charity School is erected in London.
• A Baptist church is founded at Welsh Neck in South Carolina, United States.
• Morgan Edwards begins his career as a preacher.
• Lawyer John Meredith is knighted and becomes High Sheriff of Brecknock.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Anne Penny – Select Poems from Mr. Gesner's Pastorals

Welsh language

• Newyddion Mawr Oddiwrth y Ser

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn – Caniadau ... y Môr o Wydr

Births

• 4 June – Prince George, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1820)
• September (in Ireland) – Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff (died 1806)
• date unknown – David Williams, philosopher (died 1816)

Deaths

• January – Thomas Harley (of Kinsham), former MP for Radnorshire, about 63
• 12 June – Samuel Edwards, politician, about 70
• 28 August – John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, 58
• 1 September – Mathias Maurice, minister and author, 54
• 27 September – Sir Thomas Stradling, 6th Baronet, 28 (in a duel)

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