1754 in Wales

Events from the year 1754 in Wales.

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 (until 26 August); Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth (from 6 November)
 * 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 Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry
 * Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Cresset
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond
 * Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys

Events

 * April–May – In the British general election, newly elected MPs include Robert Wynne at Caernarvon Boroughs and Benjamin Bathurst at Monmouth Boroughs.
 * John Jenkin (Ioan Siengcin) opens a Welsh school at Nevern.

New books

 * Richard Rees – Collected sermons, published by Philip Charles
 * Ben Simon (ed.) – Collected works of Dafydd ap Gwilym
 * Mêr Difinyddiaeth Iachus (second edition, with a preface by Morgan Jones)

Music

 * William Williams (Pantycelyn) – Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 2

Births

 * 28 October – John Griffiths, medical practitioner and surgeon in the Royal Household (died 1822)
 * 25 November – William Parry, minister and author (died 1819)
 * date unknown – Charles Hassall, surveyor (died 1814)
 * earliest likely year – Jane Cave, poet (died 1812)

Deaths

 * 10 January – Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83
 * 20 February – John Owen, MP, about 52
 * 17 May – Richard Herbert, politician, 49/50
 * 26 August – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, 68