1731 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1731 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1731 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 CholmondeleyJ.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of BoltonArthur Collins The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed H. Woodfall 1768 235 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar(until 24 April); Thomas Morgan (from 18 June) Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos Bishop of Bangor – Thomas SherlockE. B. Pryde D. E. Greenway S. Porter I. Roy Handbook of British Chronology https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA292 23 February 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-56350-5 292 Bishop of Llandaff – John Harriss-HARR-JOH-1680 Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff Thomas Lawrence 3 October 2021 Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare (until 25 November)Arthur Philip Perceval An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders 1839 197 Stephen Hyde Cassan Lives of the Bishops of Bath 1829 162 Bishop of St Davids – Richard SmalbrokeSmalbroke, Richard (until 20 February)Elias Sydall (11 April to 2 November)West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales W. Spurrell and son 1914 280Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 304 Events April - Trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off by Spanish coast guards in Cuba leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 303 September 22 - Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) writes to the SPCK proposing that a Welsh school be set up at Llanddowror. This marks the beginning of the circulating schools movement. Arts and literature New books Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis CommentariolumRobert Watt Bibliotheca Britannica: Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=YFHMXtCHzuMC&pg=PA11-IA3 1824 A. Constable 604 Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr EglwysGwilym Lleyn Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century https://archive.org/details/cambrianbibliog00rowlgoog 1869 Printed and pub. by J. Pryse 358 Other 23 April - Henry Fielding's latest work, The Welsh Opera, is performed in Haymarket. It includes personal attacks on Frederick, Prince of Wales.Loftis, John. The Politics of Drama in Augustan England. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963. p. 105 Births 20 May - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), poet (died 1788)8955 Jenkins Geraint H. Evans, Evan [pseud. Ieuan Fardd; called Ieuan Brydydd Hir] (1731–1788), scholar and poet date unknown Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (died 1806) Aaron Williams, composer (died 1776) Deaths January - Thomas Jones of Lincoln's Inn, founder of the Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient BritonsWales Druid Press 1947 168 6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer, 7468177 Mary K. Geiter David Lloyd 24 April - William Morgan of Tredegar (the elder), Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 31The English Reports: House of Lords (1677-1865) W. Green 1900 1350 September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader, 81 (in America)s-ELLI-ROW-1650 Ellis, Rowland (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker Robert (Bob) Owen yes 4 October 2021 4 September - John Roberts, MP for Denbigh, 59? http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/roberts-john-1731 ROBERTS, John (d.1731), of Plas Newydd, Denb. History of Parliament Online (1715-1754) 4 October 2021 9 October - William Stanley, Dean of St Asaph, 85STNY663W Stanley, William References 1731 Category:1730s in Wales Category:1731 by country Category:1731 in Great Britain Category:1731 in Europe