1753 in Wales

Events from the year 1753 in Wales.

Incumbents

Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – 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 ; 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

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
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
8 October – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island
10 December – Richard Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian
date unknown
*Christopher Bassett, Methodist clergyman
*Henry Davies, Baptist minister

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