# 1753 in Wales

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Events from the year **1753 in [Wales](/source/Wales)**.

## Incumbents

- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales ([Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Anglesey), [Caernarvonshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Caernarvonshire), [Flintshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Flintshire), [Merionethshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Merionethshire), [Montgomeryshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Montgomeryshire)) – [George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley](/source/George_Cholmondeley,_3rd_Earl_of_Cholmondeley)[1][2]
- [Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Glamorgan) – [Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton](/source/Charles_Powlett,_3rd_Duke_of_Bolton)[3]
- [Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Brecknockshire) and [Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Monmouthshire) – [Thomas Morgan](/source/Thomas_Morgan_(judge_advocate))[1]
- [Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Cardiganshire) – [Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne](/source/Wilmot_Vaughan,_3rd_Viscount_Lisburne)[1]
- [Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Carmarthenshire) – *vacant until 1755*
- [Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Denbighshire) – [Richard Myddelton](/source/Richard_Myddelton_(1726%E2%80%931795))
- [Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Pembrokeshire) – [Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet](/source/Sir_Arthur_Owen,_3rd_Baronet) (until 6 June);[4] [Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet](/source/Sir_William_Owen,_4th_Baronet) (from 2 August)[1]
- [Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire](/source/Lord_Lieutenant_of_Radnorshire) – William Perry[1]
- [Bishop of Bangor](/source/Bishop_of_Bangor) – [Zachary Pearce](/source/Zachary_Pearce)[5]
- [Bishop of Llandaff](/source/Bishop_of_Llandaff) – [Edward Cresset](/source/Edward_Cresset)[6]
- [Bishop of St Asaph](/source/Bishop_of_St_Asaph) – [Robert Hay Drummond](/source/Robert_Hay_Drummond)[7]
- [Bishop of St Davids](/source/Bishop_of_St_Davids) – [Anthony Ellys](/source/Anthony_Ellys) (from 31 March)[8]

## Events

- [Lewis Morris](/source/Lewis_Morris_(1701%E2%80%931765)) is briefly imprisoned at Cardigan when the local squires challenge his rights as the Crown's local representative to mine for lead. As a result of the controversy, Morris visits London for the first time.
- [Isaac Wilkinson](/source/Isaac_Wilkinson) of Cumbria takes out a lease on the Bersham furnace at Wrexham,[9] and settles at [Plas Grono](/source/Plas_Grono).[10]
- William Thomas, former Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, unsuccessfully brings an action in Chancery against [Thomas James, Lord Bulkeley](/source/Thomas_Bulkeley,_7th_Viscount_Bulkeley), claiming the advowson of Aber.

## Arts and literature

### New books

- [Thomas Richards of Coychurch](/source/Thomas_Richards_of_Coychurch) – *Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus* (English-Welsh dictionary)
- [William Wogan](/source/William_Wogan_(religious_writer)) – *Essay on the Proper Lessons of the Church of England*

### Music

- [2 July](/source/2_July) – John Jones succeeds the late [Johann Christoph Pepusch](/source/Johann_Christoph_Pepusch) as organist at Charterhouse.

## Births

- [2 April](/source/2_April) – [William Lort Mansel](/source/William_Lort_Mansel), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (died [1820](/source/1820_in_Wales))[11]
- [8 October](/source/8_October) – [William Jones](/source/William_Jones_(governor)), Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island (died 1822)
- [10 December](/source/10_December) – [Richard Thomas](/source/Richard_Thomas_(priest)), Anglican priest and antiquarian (died [1780](/source/1780_in_Wales))
- *date unknown* - [Christopher Bassett](/source/Christopher_Bassett), Methodist clergyman (died [1784](/source/1784_in_Wales))[12] - [Henry Davies](/source/Henry_Davies_(Baptist_minister)), Baptist minister (died [1825](/source/1825_in_Wales))

## Deaths

- [6 June](/source/6_June) – [Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet](/source/Sir_Arthur_Owen,_3rd_Baronet), MP for Pembroke and Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire[13]
- *date unknown* - [Hughe Hughes](/source/Hughe_Hughes), Dean of Bangor, about 44[14] - [William Gwyn Vaughan](/source/William_Gwyn_Vaughan), politician, about 72[15]

## References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). *List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974*. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.

1. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). *Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales*. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.

1. 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.

1. ["Owen, Sir Arthur, 3rd Bt. (c.1674-1753), of Orielton, Pemb."](https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/owen-sir-arthur-1674-1753). History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). Retrieved 30 September 2018.

1. Hole, Robert (2004). ["Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)"](http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21693). *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*. Retrieved 4 June 2008.

1. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). *Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,*. University Press. p. 255.

1. *The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England*. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.

1. P. K. Stembridge (1998). [*The Goldney Family: A Bristol Merchant Dynasty*](https://archive.org/details/goldneyfamilybri00stem). Bristol Record Society. pp. [36](https://archive.org/details/goldneyfamilybri00stem/page/36)–. UOM:39015041909204.

1. W.H. Chaloner (10 January 2018). [*People and Industries*](https://books.google.com/books?id=7wRGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT24). Taylor & Francis. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-351-24724-5.

1. *The Publications of the Thoresby Society*. The Society. 1967. p. 78.

1. Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric". s-BASS-CHR-1753. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

1. James Frederick Rees. "OWEN family of Orielton, Pembs.". s-OWEN-ORI-1571. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

1. Henry Owen & Henry Rowlands (1766). *Mona Antiqua restaurata. An archæological discourse on the antiquities, natural and historical, of the Isle of Anglesey*. J. Knox. p. 35.

1. ["VAUGHAN, William Gwyn (?1681-1753), of Trebarried, Brec."](http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/vaughan-william-gwyn-1681-1753). *History of Parliament Online*. Retrieved 18 October 2019.

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