1742 in Wales

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Events from the year 1742 in Wales.

Incumbents

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

Trevor Hall, rebuilt 1742-3

Events

• 23 February - John Myddelton completes his term as MP for Denbighshire.[1]
• July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet vacates his Montgomeryshire seat when the result of the previous year's election for Denbighshire is overturned in his favour.
• Howell Harris, Daniel Rowland and their converts form the Methodist Association in Wales. One of these, William Prichard, is exiled with his family from Glasfryn Fawr and relocates to Plas Penmynydd, Anglesey.
• Rebuilding of Trevor Hall, Denbighshire, begins, following the marriage of Mary and John Lloyd (Pentrehobin).[2]

Arts and literature

New books

• Richard Farrington - Twenty Sermons
• Morgan John Lewis - Sail, Dibenion, a Rheolau'r Societies

Music

• John Parry - Antient British Music[3]

Births

• 9 February - David Davies, clergyman and author (died 1819)
• 18 February - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician (died 1792)[4]
• 26 September - Thomas Jones, landscape painter (died 1803)
• 3 December - Sir Erasmus Gower, naval commander (died 1814)[5]
• probable - Watkin Williams, politician (died 1808)

Deaths

• January - Hugh Williams (of Chester), politician, 47?
• 2 March (buried) - Moses Williams, antiquarian scholar, 57
• 8 June - Robert Jones, landowner

References

1. "Myddelton, John (1685-1747), of Chirk Castle, Denb". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
2. "Trevor Hall". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
3. "File NLW MS 12393D. - John Parry ('Y Telynor Dall')". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
4. Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The Parliamentary History of Wales. Priv. print. for the author by E. Davis and Bell. pp. 26, 130. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
5. Sir Erasmus GOWER (1815). Biographical Memoir of Sir E. Gower, etc. p. 41.