1742 in Wales
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Events from the year 1742 in Wales.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Frederick, Prince of Wales
- Princess of Wales - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
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.
- Trevor Hall, Denbighshire built.
Arts and literature
New books
- Richard Farrington - Twenty Sermons
- Morgan John Lewis - Sail, Dibenion, a Rheolau'r Societies
Music
- John Parry - Antient British Music
Births
- 18 February - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician (died 1792)[2]
- 26 September - Thomas Jones, landscape painter (died 1803)
- 3 December - Sir Erasmus Gower, naval commander (died 1814)
- 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
- ↑ "Myddelton, John (1685-1747), of Chirk Castle, Denb.". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
- ↑ Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The Parliamentary History of Wales. pp. 26, 130. Retrieved 2007-10-17.