Events from the year 1754 in Wales.
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 (until 26 August); Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth (from 6 November) 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 Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys
Events April–May – In the British general election, newly elected MPs include Robert Wynne at Caernarvon Boroughs and Benjamin Bathurst at Monmouth Boroughs. John Jenkin (Ioan Siengcin) opens a Welsh school at Nevern.
Arts and literature New books Richard Rees – Collected sermons, published by Philip Charles Ben Simon (ed.) – Collected works of Dafydd ap Gwilym Mêr Difinyddiaeth Iachus (second edition, with a preface by Morgan Jones)
Music William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 2
Births 28 October – John Griffiths, medical practitioner and surgeon in the Royal Household (died 1822) 25 November – William Parry, minister and author (died 1819) date unknown – Charles Hassall, surveyor (died 1814) earliest likely year – Jane Cave, poet (died 1812)
Deaths 10 January – Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83 20 February – John Owen, MP, about 52 17 May – Richard Herbert, politician, 49/50 26 August – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, 68
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