This article is about the particular significance of the year 1736 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 – Charles Cecil Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox (from 4 July) Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett
Events 17 April - Frederick, Prince of Wales, marries Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London. 4 July - Isaac Maddox is consecrated Bishop of St Asaph. Maddox continues to reside in south-east England and rarely visits the diocese. 28 July - John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, becomes Dean of Wells Cathedral in succession to Isaac Maddox. Thomas Frye paints the Prince of Wales for the Worshipful Company of Saddlers. date unknown Sixty soldiers are drowned after their vessel is wrecked on the Wolves rocks near Flat Holm; the incident leads to the building of a lighthouse on the island. Howell Harris opens a school. Fortunatus Wright marries Mary, daughter of William Bulkeley, in Dublin.
Arts and literature
New books Rees Ellis - "A Summer Carol" Anthony Ellys - A Plea for the Sacramental Test as best Security for the Church established, and very conducive to the Welfare of the State John Reynolds - Heraldry Displayed
Births 6 July - Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, soldier and politician, of Welsh ancestry (d. 1802) 10 July - David Jones, Church of England priest and an early supporter of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism (d. 1810) 31 August - David Ellis, clergyman, poet and transcriber of manuscripts (d. 1795) 22 October - John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (d. 1769) date unknown Charles Morgan, politician (d. 1787) Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician (d. 1807)
Deaths June - Edward Prideaux Gwyn, about 38 November? - Griffith Wynn, translator, about 76 22 November - Thomas Lewis, politician, owner of The Van estate, 56/57 date unknown - Edward Kemys, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, about 43
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