1743 in Wales
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Events from the year 1743 in Wales.
Incumbents
Events
- January 2 - Edward Willes is consecrated Bishop of St David's.
- April 21 - Thomas Herring becomes Archbishop of York and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by Matthew Hutton. Both men go on to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- June 8 - William Bulkeley completes the first of his diaries.
- November - John Thomas replaces Isaac Maddox as Bishop of St Asaph, but within a short time is translated to the bishopric of Lincoln and is himself replaced at St Asaph by Samuel Lisle.
- date unknown
- William Williams (Pantycelyn) is refused ordination as a priest because of his Methodist activities; from this time on he commits himself entirely to the Methodist movement.
- A notable eisteddfod is held at Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog in Powys.[1]
- Griffith Hughes returns from his travels in America and Barbados, and presents a hitherto unknown substance, asbestos, to the Royal Society.[2]
Arts and literature
New books
- Daniel Rowland & Ralph Erskine - Traethawd am farw i'r ddeddf, a byw i Dduw
Births
- May - Dafydd Siôn Siâms, musician, poet, and book-binder (died 1831)[3]
- 2 May – William Parry, portrait painter (died 1791)
- 30 July - Philip Yorke, genealogist (died 1804)
- date unknown
- Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist (died 1825)
- Sir John Stepney, 8th Baronet, politician (died 1811)
Deaths
- 6 March - Arthur Bevan, barrister and husband of Bridget Bevan, 56[4]
- 15 July - John Wynne, bishop, 85[5]
- date unknown
- Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian
- Robert Wynne, clergyman and academic
References
- ↑ Welsh Biography Online
- ↑ Stearns, Raymond Phineas: Science in the British colonies of America, (Univ. of Illinois, 1970) p 357
- ↑ Welsh Biography Online
- ↑ Welsh Biography Online
- ↑ Welsh Biography Online
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