1751 in Wales

Events from the year 1751 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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor (until 7 December)

Events

• 20 April – George, eldest son of the late Frederick, Prince of Wales, is made Prince of Wales.
• September – Richard Morris co-founds the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in London.
• Richard Price Thelwall inherits his brother's Caernarfonshire estate.

Arts and literature

New books

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 1

Music

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 1

Births

• 22 January – David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr), poet (died 1827)
• 15 October – David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), naval surgeon, companion of Captain Cook and bard (died 1798)

Deaths

• 31 March – Frederick, Prince of Wales, 44 (pulmonary embolism)
• 20 September – Anne Vaughan, Duchess of Bolton, 61/62
• 2 October – Thomas Mathews, admiral, 75
• 19 December – Princess Louise of Wales, queen of Denmark and Norway, 27

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