1728 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1728 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 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 – vacant until 1729 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 Sherlock (from 4 February) Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering Bray Gerald Records of Convocation Boydell Press in association with the Church of England Record Society Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY 2005 9781843832270 298 Bishop of St Asaph – Francis HareArthur Philip Perceval An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders 1839 197Stephen Hyde Cassan Lives of the Bishops of Bath 1829 162 Bishop of St Davids – Richard SmalbrokeSmalbroke, Richard Events 4 February - Thomas Sherlock is consecrated Bishop of Bangor.E. 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 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)Francis Jones The Princes and Principality of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=7SWTAAAAIAAJ 1969 University of Wales P. 978-0-900768-20-0 194 Poet John Morgan becomes vicar of Matching, Essex, which leads to his commonly being known as John Morgan Matchin. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62912 Morgan, John (1688–1733/4) Edwards Huw M. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access) Oxford University Press 2004 2008-04-10 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.The Complete Baronetage, Volume IV Cokayne G.E. 1904 William Pollard & Co 150 Arts and literature New books Richard Lewis, Muscipula, a translation of Edward Holdsworth's Latin satire on the WelshBurt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books John Roderick, Grammadeg Cymraegs-RODE-JOH-1675 Roderick John (John or Sion Rhydderch) (1673-1735), grammarian, printer and publisher of almanacks and books, poet, and eisteddfodwr William Llewelyn Davies Enid Pierce Roberts Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers 1 November 2021 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)Brymbo Steelworks – The last tap, Wrexham County Borough Council probable Daines Barrington, judge in North Wales (died 1800David Philip Miller Barrington, Daines (1727/8–1800) 2004 2008 1529 Edward Owen, translator (died 1807)http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20993 Owen, Edward (1728/9–1807) Sutton C. W. Brown Sarah Annes Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 10 March 2009 Deaths 13 September - William Gambold, grammarian, 56s-GAMB-OLD-1650 Gambold family Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 2 October 2021 References 1728 Category:1720s in Wales Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales Category:1728 in Europe