1740 in Wales

Events from the year 1740 in Wales.

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
• Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson (until 21 October); John Gilbert (from 28 December)
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

• 6 November - Charles Wesley records in his diary a visit to the Glascott family home at Cardiff.
• date unknown - William Williams Pantycelyn becomes a deacon and is appointed curate to Theophilus Evans at Llanfaes.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
• Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
• Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed

Music

• Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)

Births

• 23 February - Benjamin Evans, Congregational minister and author (died 1821)
• 26 December - John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), musician (died 1821)
• date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (died 1821)

Deaths

• 3 April - Thomas Dominic Williams, Roman Catholic bishop, 78/9
• 7 August - Jane Brereton, poet, 55
• 3 October - Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, politician, 76
• 20 October - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?
• date unknown
• Enoch Francis, Baptist
• John Morris, youngest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 34 (died at sea during an attack on Cartagena)

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