1733 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1733 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (until 7 May); George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley (from 14 June)
 * 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 (from 21 June)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos


 * Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock
 * Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner (from 23 January)
 * Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

 * 21 June - The post of Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire is combined with that of Custos Rotulorum of Denbighshire.
 * 29 November - Charles Talbot is appointed Lord Chancellor.
 * 5 December - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, is raised to the peerage.
 * date unknown
 * Legal proceedings in the Welsh courts to be conducted in the English language.
 * John Myddelton, politician, inherits the estates of his brother Robert, including Chirk Castle.

New books

 * "Gwinfrid Shones" (popular ballad)
 * William Wynn writes his first poem, while a student at Oxford.

Births

 * March - John Lloyd, Rector of Caerwys, antiquary (died 1793)

Deaths

 * 22 January - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, about 66
 * 2 February - Robert Price, judge, 80
 * 28 February - John Morgan, poet, 45
 * 7 May - George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 66/67
 * June/July - Michael Pritchard, poet, 24
 * date unknown - Robert Myddelton, owner of the Myddelton estates