This article is about the particular significance of the year 1738 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, 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 – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Herring (from 15 January) Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris (until 28 August) Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett
Events March – Howel Harris preaches in Monmouthshire for the first time. 14 May – John Wesley hears William Holland read from the work of Martin Luther, occasioning his own conversion. May – The Bala Eisteddfod takes place, chaired by Edward Wynne. Ellis Cadwaladr is winner of the bardic chair. unknown dates A new building, designed by James Steer to house the Welsh Charity School is erected in London. A Baptist church is founded at Welsh Neck in South Carolina, United States. and Accompanying map Morgan Edwards begins his career as a preacher. Lawyer John Meredith is knighted and becomes High Sheriff of Brecknock.
Arts and literature
New books English language Anne Penny – Select Poems from Mr. Gesner's Pastorals
Welsh language Newyddion Mawr Oddiwrth y Ser
Music William Williams Pantycelyn – Caniadau ... y Môr o Wydr
Births 4 June – Prince George, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1820) September (in Ireland) – Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff (died 1806)Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Volume 3 (1830), p.447. date unknown – David Williams, philosopher (died 1816)
Deaths January – Thomas Harley (of Kinsham), former MP for Radnorshire, about 63 12 June – Samuel Edwards, politician, about 70 28 August – John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, 58 1 September – Mathias Maurice, minister and author, 54 27 September – Sir Thomas Stradling, 6th Baronet, 28 (in a duel)
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