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1774 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year
1774
to
Wales
and
its people
.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey
-
Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire
and
Monmouthshire
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Charles Morgan of Dderw
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire
-
Thomas Wynn
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire
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Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire
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George Rice
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire
-
Richard Myddelton
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire
-
Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan
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John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire
-
William Vaughan
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire
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Robert Clive
(until 2 November)
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire
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Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire
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Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Bishop of Bangor
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John Ewer
(until 28 October)
John Moore
Bishop of Llandaff
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Shute Barrington
Bishop of St Asaph
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Jonathan Shipley
Bishop of St Davids
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Charles Moss
(until 2 June);
James Yorke
(from 26 June)
Events
July - Dr
Samuel Johnson
accompanies
Hester Thrale
and her husband on a visit to North Wales.
unknown dates
John Wilkinson
takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in
Bersham
.
An
Act of Parliament
establishes the
Improvement Commissioners
, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff.
Construction work is completed on
Morris Castle
, "Wales's first block of flats".
Edward Jones
, an "exhorter" at
Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields
, and a lay preacher, begins holding
Welsh-language
services in
Cock Lane
,
Smithfield, London
.
Arts and literature
New books
Hugh Hughes -
Rheolau Bywyd Dynol
(translation of
Robert Dodsley
's
The Oeconomy of Human Life
Dafydd Jones
-
Marwnad Enoch Ffransis
Hugh Jones (Maesglasau)
-
Cydymaith yr Hwsmon
Music
William Williams Pantycelyn
-
Ychydig Hymnau
(hymns)
Paintings
Thomas Jones
-
'
Richard Wilson
-
Llyn y Cau, Cadair Idris
Births
16 January
-
Daniel Evans
, independent minister (died
1835
)
May -
John Elias
, preacher (died
1841
)
24 June
-
Azariah Shadrach
, writer (died
1844
)
date unknown
- Sir
John Waters
, military commander (died
1842
)
Deaths
13 January
-
John Pugh Pryse
, politician, 34
4 July
-
William Price
, High Sheriff of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire, 84
28 October
-
John Ewer
, Bishop of Bangor, about 70
date unknown
Rowland Jones
, philologist, 57
Dafydd Nicolas
, poet
References