1747 in Wales

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Events from the year 1747 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Frederick
• Princess of Wales – Augusta

Events

• August - In the general election, William Morgan of Tredegar Park becomes MP for Monmouthshire.
• Usk Bridge (Usk), designed by William Edwards, is completed.
• Portrait-painter William Williams relocates to Philadelphia.
• Quaker meeting house is established at Quakers Friars in Bristol, the burial place of Llywelyn ap Dafydd.
• James Relly reports on his missionary tour to Bristol, Bath, Gloucestershire, and Birmingham.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Boydell - The Bridge Book

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns)

Births

• January - Richard Fenton, poet and author (died 1821)
• March 10 - Iolo Morganwg, antiquarian, poet and literary forger (died 1826)
• date unknown - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet (2nd creation) (died 1828)

Deaths

• probable - David Lloyd, clergyman and translator