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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
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
- 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
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
- Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Herring
- Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson (from 18 February)
- Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox
- Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Arts and literature
New books
- Rowland Ellis - A Salutation to the Britains (2nd London edition)
- John Reynolds - The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry
Music
Births
- January - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (died 1810)
- 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)
Deaths
- 5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65
- 6 June - John Griffith, MP for Caernarvonshire, about 52
References
- ^ J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
- Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 108.
- Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. 1939. p. 142.
- Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
- Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
- "Clagett, Nicholas (CLGT702N)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Thomas Richards. "BULKELEY, WILLIAM (1691-1760), squire and diarist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- St. Mary's vestry book. "St. Mary's Church". Explore Gower. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- "St Deiniol's Church, Worthenbury (307972)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- Robert (Bob) Owen. "ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- Lake, A. Cynfael. "Edwards, Thomas (1738–1810), poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/62647. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Evans, Chris (1990). The letterbook of Richard Crawshay, 1788-1797. Cardiff: South Wales Record Society. p. IX. ISBN 9780950867656.
- Norgate, G. Le G.; Clayton, M. E. (May 2007). "Mostyn, Sir Roger, third baronet (1673–1739)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
- "GRIFFITH, John (?1687-1739), of Cefnamwlch, Caern". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 October 2018.