1753
in
Wales
Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
See also:List of years in Wales
Timeline of Welsh history
1753 in
Great Britain
Scotland
Elsewhere

Events from the year 1753 in Wales.

Incumbents

Events

  • Lewis Morris 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 of Cumbria takes out a lease on the Bersham furnace at Wrexham,[9] and settles at Plas Grono.[10]
  • William Thomas, former Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, unsuccessfully brings an action in Chancery against Thomas James, Lord Bulkeley, claiming the advowson of Aber.

Arts and literature

New books

Music

Births

Deaths

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
  2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
  3. 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.
  4. "Owen, Sir Arthur, 3rd Bt. (c.1674-1753), of Orielton, Pemb". History of Parliament Online (1715–1754). Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  5. Hole, Robert (2004). "Pearce, Zachary (1690–1774)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
  6. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales,. University Press. p. 255.
  7. The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
  8. "Ellys, Anthony" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  9. P. K. Stembridge (1998). The Goldney Family: A Bristol Merchant Dynasty. Bristol Record Society. pp. 36–. UOM:39015041909204.
  10. W.H. Chaloner (10 January 2018). People and Industries. Taylor & Francis. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-351-24724-5.
  11. The Publications of the Thoresby Society. The Society. 1967. p. 78.
  12. Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (17531784), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  13. James Frederick Rees. "OWEN family of Orielton, Pembs.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  14. 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.
  15. "VAUGHAN, William Gwyn (?1681-1753), of Trebarried, Brec". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
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