1747 in Wales

Events from the year 1747 in Wales.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, 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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry


 * Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton (until 10 December)
 * Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle
 * Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor

Events

 * August - In the general election, William Morgan of Tredegar Park becomes MP for Monmouthshire.
 * date unknown
 * Construction of the Usk Bridge (Usk), designed by William Edwards, begins.
 * Portrait-painter William Williams relocates to Philadelphia.
 * A 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.

New books

 * John Boydell - The Bridge Book

Music

 * William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns)

Births

 * January - Richard Fenton, poet and author (died 1821)
 * 10 March - Iolo Morganwg, antiquarian, poet and literary forger (died 1826)
 * 5 April - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet (2nd creation) (died 1828)
 * 6 April - Moses Griffith, artist (died 1819)

Deaths

 * February - Walter Lloyd, lawyer and politician, 68
 * 9 April - John Myddelton, landowner and politician, 61
 * 21 July - Robert Clavering, former Bishop of Llandaff, 70/71
 * probable - David Lloyd, clergyman and translator