This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Robert Clive (until 2 November) Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Bishop of Bangor – John Ewer (until 28 October) John Moore Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (until 2 June); James Yorke (from 26 June)
Events July - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales. unknown dates John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham. An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff. Construction work is completed on Morris Castle, "Wales's first block of flats". Edward Jones, an "exhorter" at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, and a lay preacher, begins holding Welsh-language services in Cock Lane, Smithfield, London.
Arts and literature New books Hugh Hughes - Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (translation of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - Cydymaith yr Hwsmon
Music William Williams Pantycelyn - Ychydig Hymnau (hymns)
Paintings Thomas Jones - The Bard Richard Wilson - Llyn y Cau, Cadair Idris
Births 16 January - Daniel Evans, independent minister (died 1835) May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841) 24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844) date unknown - Sir John Waters, military commander (died 1842)Griffiths, Barrie (1999). A Spy for Wellington: Sir John William Waters (1774-1842), Cefn Cribwr's Forgotten Hero.
Deaths 13 January - John Pugh Pryse, politician, 34 4 July - William Price, High Sheriff of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire, 84 28 October - John Ewer, Bishop of Bangor, about 70 date unknown Rowland Jones, philologist, 57 Dafydd Nicolas, poet
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