Events from the year 1745 in Wales.
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
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