1726 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726 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^[1][2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos^[1]

• Bishop of Bangor – William Baker^[3]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering^[4]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne^[5]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[6]

Events

• 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.^[7]
• 26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.
• November - John Verney is appointed a judge in Wales by prime minister Robert Walpole, after switching his political allegiance.^[8]
• 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:^[9]
  • Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire).^[10]
  • Thomas Rowland of Cayrey (Anglesey).
  • Richard Wellington of Hay Castle (Brecknockshire).
  • Humphrey Roberts, Brynneuadd, (Caernarvonshire).
  • David Lewis of Gernos (Cardiganshire).
  • John Lloyd of Danyrallt (Carmarthenshire).
  • Edward Salusbury of Galltfaenan (Denbighshire).
  • Morgan Morgan of Llanrumney (Glamorgan).
  • Athelstan Owen of Rhiwaedog (Merionethshire/Montgomeryshire).
  • Richard Lewis of Court-y-Gallon (Monmouthshire).
  • David Lewis, of Vogart or Llandewi (Pembrokeshire).
  • Edward Burton of Vronlas (Radnorshire).
• date unknown
  • Poet Anna Williams and her father Zachariah move into the London Charterhouse, London, while he experiments in using magnetism in pursuit of the longitude prize.
• Road bridges built
  • Pont Fadog, Dyffryn Ardudwy.
  • Teifi bridge, Cardigan.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Dyer - Grongar Hill^[11] (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
• Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum^[12]

Births

• 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798)^[13]
• 30 July - William Jones of Nayland, clergyman and author (died 1800)^[14]
• June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795)^[15]
• date unknown
  • Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)^[16]
  • Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)^[17]
• probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)^[18]

Deaths

• 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67^[19]
• 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
• date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68^[20]

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
3. "Baker, William (1668-1732)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
4. Bray, Gerald (2005). Records of Convocation. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY: Boydell Press in association with the Church of England Record Society. p. 298. ISBN 9781843832270.
5. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
6. "Smalbroke, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
7. "No. 6442". The London Gazette. 11 January 1725. p. 1.
8. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions ... ; Illustrated by Several Engravings and Portraits. p. 426.
9. "No. 6533". The London Gazette. 26 November 1726. p. 1.
10. M. Bevan-Evans (1955). Guide to the Flintshire Record Office: Flintshire Quarter Sessions, and Other Official Records. Flintshire Record Office. p. 91.
11. Martin C. Battestin (1997). Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin. University of Delaware Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-87413-616-6.
12. Griffith John Williams (1969). Agweddau Ar Hanes Dysg Gymraeg (in Welsh). Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. p. 99.
13. Ellis Davies. "Pennant, Thaoms (1726-1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
14. "Jones, William (1726-1800)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
15. Jenkins, Geraint H. (1994–1995). "A rank Republican (and) a leveller: William Jones". Welsh History Review: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. p. 367. Retrieved 22 April 2011.
16. Henry D. Rack, ‘Wesley, Charles (1707–1788)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 accessed 29 Sept 2013
17. "MYDDELTON, Robert (1678-1733), of Chirk Castle, Denb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
18. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Edwards, Edward (1726?–1783?), cleric and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
19. "GWYNNE, Rowland (c.1658-1726), of Llanelwedd, Rad". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
20. Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth (1959). "Williams, Thomas (1658–1726), cleric and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.