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1739 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1739 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - Frederick
  • Princess of Wales - Augusta

    • Events

  • March - Diarist William Bulkeley of Brynddu is a bearer at the funeral of Richard Bulkeley, 5th Viscount Bulkeley.
  • The roof of St Mary's Church, Swansea, collapses into the nave just before a Sunday morning service.
  • Samuel and Nathaniel Buck produce the first of their prints of Wales.
  • A new parish church is built at Willington Worthenbury.

    • New books

  • John Reynolds - The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry

    • Births

  • January - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (died 1810)
  • March 14 - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1767)
  • April 3 - Hugh Davies, botanist (died 1821))
  • date unknown - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (died 1810)

    • Deaths

  • May 5 - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65
  • June - John Griffith, MP for Caernarvonshire

    • References

    1739 in Wales Wikipedia
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