1733 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1733 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick, Prince of Wales
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 29 November - Charles Talbot is appointed Lord Chancellor.
• 5 December - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, is raised to the peerage.
• Legal proceedings in the Welsh courts to be conducted in the English language.

Arts and literature

New books

• "Gwinfrid Shones" (popular ballad)^[1]
• William Wynn writes his first poem, while a student at Oxford.^[2]

Births

• March - John Lloyd, antiquary (died 1793)

Deaths

• 22 January - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
• 28 February - John Morgan, poet, 45
• date unknown
  • Sir Robert Myddelton, 5th Baronet
  • John Myddelton of Chirk Castle, politician

References

1. Millson, Cecilia (1986), Old Berkshire Tales, Newbury, Berkshire: Countryside Books, ISBN 0-905392-69-8, p31
2. Wiliam, Dafydd Wyn (2004). "Wynn, William (bap. 1709, d. 1760)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 March 2009.