:1747 in Wales

Events from the year 1747 in Wales.

Incumbents

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Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton{{cite book|author=Arthur Collins|title=The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed|publisher=H. Woodfall|date=1768|page=235}}
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){{cite book|author1=Andrew Coltee Ducarel|author2=Timothy Hutton |author3=James Raine|author4=Matthew Hutton|title=The Correspondence of Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York|publisher=J. B. Nichols and son|year=1843|page=41}}
Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert{{Cite ODNB|id=10692|title=Gilbert, John}}{{cite book|title=Guides and Handbooks|publisher=Royal Historical Society|year=1939|page=142}}
Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle{{cite book|author1=Browne Willis|author2=Edward Edwards|author3=Andrew Coltee Ducarel|title=Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, Considerably Enlarged and Brought Down to the Present Time|publisher=John Painter|year=1801|page=154}}
Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor{{cite book|title=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales|publisher=University Press|year=1854|page=305}}

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.

January - Richard Fenton, poet and author (died 1821){{cite odnb |first=Brynley F. |last=Roberts |title=Fenton, Richard (1747–1821) |id=9298 |year=2004 }}
10 March - Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams), antiquarian, poet and literary forger (died 1826){{cite web|url=https://archives.library.wales/index.php/iolo-morganwg-1747-2|title=Iolo Morganwg, 1747-1826|website=Archives Wales|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=8 October 2021}}
5 April - Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet (2nd creation) (died 1828){{cite book|author=George Edward Cokayne|title=Complete baronetage: Volume V|publisher=W. Pollard & Company|year=1900|page=172}}
6 April - Moses Griffith, artist (died 1819){{cite journal|title=Moses Griffith|author=J. Lloyd-Johnes|journal=National Library of Wales Journal|publisher=Council of the National Library of Wales|year=1979|page=241}}

February - Walter Lloyd, lawyer and politician, 68{{cite web| url =http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/lloyd-walter-1678-1747 | title=LLOYD, Walter (?1678-1747), of Peterwell, Card. | publisher= History of Parliament Online| access-date = 23 May 2019 }}
9 April - John Myddelton, landowner and politician, 61{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/myddelton-john-1685-1747|title=MYDDELTON, John (1685-1747), of Chirk Castle, Denb. | History of Parliament Online|access-date=8 October 2021}}
21 July - Robert Clavering, former Bishop of Llandaff, 70/71{{cite book|author=W. Percy Hedley|title=Northumberland Families|publisher=Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne|year=1968|page=179}}
probable - David Lloyd, clergyman and translator