1728 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1728 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 – Thomas Sherlock (from 4 February)^[3]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering^[4]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare^[5][6]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[7]

Events

• 4 February - Thomas Sherlock is consecrated Bishop of Bangor.^[3]
• August - Richard Smalbroke, Bishop of St Davids, commends the treatise on the authority of Scripture by Faustus Socinus, with the result that the work is translated into English and published in 1731 with a dedication to the Queen, Caroline of Ansbach.
• date unknown
  • The Coronet of Frederick, Prince of Wales, is made, probably by royal goldsmith Samuel Shales, at a cost of £140 5/- (one hundred and forty pounds and five shillings)^[8]
  • Poet John Morgan becomes vicar of Matching, Essex, which leads to his commonly being known as John Morgan Matchin.^[9]
  • Main Street North Wales, Pennsylvania, originally an old Indian trail, is laid out as the "Great Road".
  • Watkin Williams-Wynn, the future 3rd Baronet, is mayor of Oswestry.^[10]

Arts and literature

New books

• Richard Lewis, Muscipula, a translation of Edward Holdsworth's Latin satire on the Welsh^[11]
• John Roderick, Grammadeg Cymraeg^[12]

Music

• The traditional Welsh folk tune, "The Ash Grove", or something very similar, is featured in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

Births

• date unknown
  • John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson, English industrialist, owner of Bersham Ironworks and Brymbo Hall (died 1808)^[13]
• probable
  • Daines Barrington, judge in North Wales (died 1800^[14]
  • Edward Owen, translator (died 1807)^[15]

Deaths

• 13 September - William Gambold, grammarian, 56^[16]

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. E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (23 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
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. Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
6. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
7. "Smalbroke, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
8. Francis Jones (1969). The Princes and Principality of Wales. University of Wales P. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-900768-20-0.
9. Edwards, Huw M. (2004). "Morgan, John (1688–1733/4)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
10. Cokayne, G.E., ed. (1904). The Complete Baronetage, Volume IV. William Pollard & Co. p. 150.
11. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
12. William Llewelyn Davies; Enid Pierce Roberts; Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. "Roderick John (John or Sion Rhydderch) (1673-1735), grammarian, printer and publisher of almanacks and books, poet, and eisteddfodwr". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
13. Brymbo Steelworks – The last tap, Wrexham County Borough Council
14. Miller, David Philip (2008) [2004]. "Barrington, Daines (1727/8–1800)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1529. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
15. Sutton, C. W.; Brown, Sarah Annes (2004). "Owen, Edward (1728/9–1807)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
16. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Gambold family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 October 2021.