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1729 in Wales
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1729
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1729 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 Bolton (from 26 March)Arthur 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
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 – Robert Clavering (until 17 February); Bray Gerald Records of Convocation Boydell Press in association with the Church of England Record Society Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY 2005 9781843832270 298 John Harris (from 19 October)s-HARR-JOH-1680 Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff Thomas Lawrence 3 October 2021
Bishop of St Asaph – Francis HareArthur 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
Events
8 January - Prince Frederick, son of King George II, is created Prince of Wales, nearly two years after his father's accession.l Previous Princes. Prince of Wales official website. Accessed 20 April 2014.
1 March - A St. David's Society is established by Welsh immigrants in Philadelphia.
13 March - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel, marries Barbara Villiers, daughter of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey.
26 March - Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton is sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, the post having been vacant since 1715. After 1729, all Lords Lieutenant were also Custos Rotulorum of Glamorgan.
19 October - John Harris is consecrated as Bishop of Llandaff.
date unknown
Zachariah Williams is admitted as a poor brother pensioner of the Charterhouse in London.
Lewis Morris, eldest of the noted Morris brothers of Anglesey, becomes a customs official.
Arts and literature
New books
Christmas Samuel - Golwg ar y Testament Newydds-SAMU-CHR-1674 Samuel, Christmas (1674-1764), Independent minister John Dyfnallt Owen yes 3 October 2021
Thomas Sherlock – The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus Bietenholz Peter Historia and fabula : myths and legends in historical thought from antiquity to the modern age Brill Leiden New York 1994 9789004247130 321
Births
6 January - Anne Penny, née Hughes, poet (died 1784)74054 Penny [née Hughes; other married name Christian], Anne (bap. 1729, d. 1780/1784)
probable - Joseph Turner, architect (died 1807)
Deaths
29 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, 64s-GLYN-PEN-1603 Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flintshire David Jenkins yes 3 October 2021
June - Thomas Baddy, Independent minister and authors-BADD-THO-1729 Baddy, Thomas (died 1729), Independent minister and author Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 3 October 2021
July - Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, 35?
1 September - Sir Richard Steele, satirist, 57http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-9435-parish-church-of-st-peter-carmarthen#.VocGe09RSx1 Parish Church of St Peter, Carmarthen BritishListedBuildings 24 September 2018
unknown date - Malachi Jones, Welsh clergyman in PennsylvaniaHodge Charles The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Philadelphia https://archive.org/details/constitutionalh02hodg 1839 William S. Martien Philadelphia 196]
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