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Events from the year 1745 in Wales.
Incumbents
For Great Britain incumbents, see 1745 in Great Britain § Incumbents.- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, 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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – vacant
- Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert
- Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle
- Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor
Events
- Following the failure of the Jacobite Rebellion, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is suspected of involvement and seeks protection from his father-in-law, Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort.
Arts and literature
New books
- Anonymous
- An Expostulatory Epistle to the Welsh Knight..., etc
- An Apology for the Welsh Knight..., etc
Music
- Ancient British Music, Part 2 (unpublisher)
Births
- 13 January – Robert Jones, Rhoslan, writer (died 1829)
- 14 February – David Davis (Castellhywel), poet (died 1827)
- 15 July – Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1819)
- date unknown – Thomas Redmond, artist (died 1785)
Deaths
- 22 October – William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis, 80
- date unknown – Erasmus Lewes, Anglican clergyman
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.
- Andrew Coltee Ducarel; Timothy Hutton; James Raine; Matthew Hutton (1843). The Correspondence of Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. J. B. Nichols and son. p. 41.
- "Gilbert, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10692. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society. 1939. p. 142.
- Browne Willis; Edward Edwards; Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1801). Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, Considerably Enlarged and Brought Down to the Present Time. John Painter. p. 154.
- Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 305.
- ^ Robert Phillimore; George Lyttelton (1845). Memoirs And Correspondence Of George, Lord Lyttelton, From 1734 To 1773. Ridgway. p. 2.
- The Anglo-Welsh Review. Dock Leaves Press. 1980. p. 135.
- White, Cathryn (2012). Welsh poetry of the French Revolution, 1789-1805. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 413. ISBN 9780708325292.
- Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900). Herald Office. p. 142.
- Thomas Mardy Rees (1912). Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527-1911). Welsh Publishing Company. p. 123.
- Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Herbert, William (d.1745)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.