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Шаблон:Use Welsh English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1739 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- 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 (from 18 February)[5]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox[6][7]
- Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett[8]
Events
- March - Diarist William Bulkeley of Brynddu is a bearer at the funeral of Richard Bulkeley, 5th Viscount Bulkeley, and leaves an account in his diary.[9]
- 20 May - The roof of St Mary's Church, Swansea, collapses into the nave just before a Sunday morning service; the congregation is waiting outside for the officiating priest, who is running late.[10]
- date unknown
- Samuel and Nathaniel Buck tour Wales to produce the first of their prints of the country, following on from their prints of England.
- A new parish church is completed at Willington Worthenbury near Wrexham, designed by Richard Trubshaw.[11]
Arts and literature
New books
- Rowland Ellis - A Salutation to the Britains (2nd London edition)[12]
- John Reynolds - The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry
Music
Births
- January - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (died 1810)[13]
- 14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1767)
- 3 April - Hugh Davies, botanist (died 1821)
- date unknown - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (died 1810)[14]
Deaths
- 5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65[15]
- 6 June - John Griffith, MP for Caernarvonshire, about 52[16]
References
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