1753 in Wales

Events from the year 1753 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 (until 6 June); Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (from 2 August)
• 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 – Anthony Ellys (from 31 March)

Events

• Lewis Morris is briefly imprisoned at Cardigan when the local squires challenge his rights as the Crown's local representative to mine for lead. As a result of the controversy, Morris visits London for the first time.
• Isaac Wilkinson of Cumbria takes out a lease on the Bersham furnace at Wrexham, and settles at Plas Grono.
• William Thomas, former Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, unsuccessfully brings an action in Chancery against Thomas James, Lord Bulkeley, claiming the advowson of Aber.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Richards of Coychurch – Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus (English-Welsh dictionary)
• William Wogan – Essay on the Proper Lessons of the Church of England

Music

• 2 July – John Jones succeeds the late Johann Christoph Pepusch as organist at Charterhouse.

Births

• 2 April – William Lort Mansel, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (died 1820)
• 8 October – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island (died 1822)
• 10 December – Richard Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (died 1780)
• date unknown
• Christopher Bassett, Methodist clergyman (died 1784)
• Henry Davies, Baptist minister (died 1825)

Deaths

• 6 June – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet, MP for Pembroke and Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire
• date unknown
• Hughe Hughes, Dean of Bangor, about 44
• William Gwyn Vaughan, politician, about 72

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