1753 in Wales
Introduction Events from the year '''1753 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*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 Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet (until 6 June); Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (from 2 August)*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 (from 31 March)
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, and settles at Plas Grono. *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===*Thomas Richards of Coychurch – ''Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ thesaurus'' (English-Welsh dictionary)*William Wogan – ''Essay on the Proper Lessons of the Church of England''===Music===*2 July – John Jones succeeds the late Johann Christoph Pepusch as organist at Charterhouse.
Births *2 April – William Lort Mansel, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (died 1820)*8 October – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island (died 1822)*10 December – Richard Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (died 1780)*''date unknown'' **Christopher Bassett, Methodist clergyman (died 1784)**Henry Davies, Baptist minister (died 1825)
Deaths *6 June – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet, MP for Pembroke and Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire*''date unknown''**Hughe Hughes, Dean of Bangor, about 44**William Gwyn Vaughan, politician, about 72
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