1735 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1735 to Wales and its people.

← 1734 1733 1732 1731 1730 1735 in Wales → 1736 1737 1738 1739 1740
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1735 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 29 January - The Kemeys baronetcy of Cefn Mabli becomes extinct on the death of Sir Charles Kemeys, 4th Baronet.[1] His property at Cefn Mably is inherited by Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet.
• 20 April - Religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival.[2]
• September - Griffith Hughes records in his diary that he has broken his "knee pan" while travelling in Pennsylvania on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
• date unknown - Swansea-born Beau Nash appoints himself Master of Ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells, where a public house is later named after him.[3]

Arts and literature

New books

• Lewis Morris - Tlysau yr Hen Oesoedd

Births

• 1 March - John Price, librarian (died 1813)
• 24 June - Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis, posthumous daughter of Lord Edward Herbert (died 1786)[4]
• July - Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, peeress (died 1793)

Deaths

• 5 April - Sir Edward Stradling, 5th Baronet, MP for Cardiff and Sheriff of Glamorgan, 62[5]
• July - John Ellis, antiquarian, 61
• 14 December - Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St Asaph, 61[6]

References

1. Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 3 March 2013
2. Richard Bennett. "The Early Life of Howell Harris". The Revival Library. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
3. Phil Carradice (17 October 2011). "Beau Nash, the Welsh dandy". BBC - Wales History. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
4. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
5. "Stradling family". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
6. Courtney, William Prideaux (1898). "Tanner, Thomas (1674-1735)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.