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1740 in Wales

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Events from the year 1740 in Wales.

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley^[1][2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton^[3]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Herring^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson (until 21 October);^[5] John Gilbert (from 28 December)^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox^[7][8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett^[9]

• 6 November - Charles Wesley records in his diary a visit to the Glascott family home at Cardiff.^[10]
• date unknown - William Williams Pantycelyn becomes a deacon^[11] and is appointed curate to Theophilus Evans at Llanfaes.^[12]

• John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
• Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
• Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed^[13]

• Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)^[14]

• 23 February - Benjamin Evans, Congregational minister and author (died 1821)^[15]
• 26 December - John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), musician (died 1821)
• date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (died 1821)

• 3 April - Thomas Dominic Williams, Roman Catholic bishop, 78/9^[16]
• 7 August - Jane Brereton, poet, 55^[17]
• 3 October - Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, politician, 76^[18]
• 20 October - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?^[19]
• date unknown
  • Enoch Francis, Baptist
  • John Morris, youngest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 34 (died at sea during an attack on Cartagena)^[20]