1738 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1738 to Wales and its people.

← 1737 1736 1735 1734 1733 1738 in Wales → 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1738 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick
• Princess of Wales - Augusta

Events

• March - Howel Harris preaches in Monmouthshire for the first time.
• 14 May - John Wesley hears William Holland read from the work of Martin Luther, occasioning his own conversion.[1]
• May - The Bala Eisteddfod takes place, chaired by Edward Wynne. Ellis Cadwaladr is winner of the bardic chair.[2]
• A new building, designed by James Steer to house the Welsh Charity School is erected in London.
• A Baptist church is founded at Welsh Neck in South Carolina, United States.[3]
• Morgan Edwards begins his career as a preacher.

Arts and literature

New books

• Newyddion Mawr Oddiwrth y Ser (first edition)

Births

• 4 June - Prince George, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1820)
• September (in Ireland) - Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff (died 1806)[4]
• date unknown - David Williams, philosopher (died 1816)[5]

Deaths

• January - Thomas Harley (of Kinsham), former MP for Radnorshire, about 63[6]
• 12 June - Samuel Edwards, politician, about 70[7]
• 28 August - John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, 58[8]
• 1 September - Mathias Maurice, minister and author, 54[9]
• 27 September - Sir Thomas Stradling, 6th Baronet, 28 (in a duel)[10]

References

1. Dictionary of Welsh Biography
2. Elwyn Evan. "CADWALADR, ELLIS (fl. 1707-40), poet". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
3. "Welsh Neck–Long Bluff–Society Hill Historic District, Darlington County (U.S. Hwy. 15, Society Hill vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 17 March 2014. and Accompanying map Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
4. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Volume 3 (1830), p.447.
5. Geraint H. Jenkins (7 January 2012). Bard of Liberty: The Political Radicalism of Iolo Morganwg. University of Wales Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-7083-2500-1.
6. "HARLEY, Thomas (c.1667-1738), of Kinsham Court, Herefs". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
7. "EDWARDS, Samuel (c.1668-1738), of Frodesley, Salop". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
8. Thomas, Lawrence. "Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2008.
9. Robert Thomas Jenkins; George Thomas Streather. "Maurice, Mathias (1684-1738), Independent minister and writer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
10. Evan David Jones. "Stradling family of Glamorganshire". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2020.