1722 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1722 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1722 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st 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 (from 7 March) Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne (until 20 March); John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne (from 21 March) 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 (from 11 September) Bishop of Bangor – Richard ReynoldsReynolds, Richard (1674-1743) Bishop of Llandaff – John TylerFrom: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014 Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne Stephen Hyde Cassan Lives of the Bishops of Bath 1829 162 Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley63755 Ottley, Adam J. D. Davies Events February - Jane Brereton's husband Thomas drowns in the River Dee at Saltney; following his death, she returns to live in Wrexham.s-BRER-JAN-1685 Brereton, Jane (1685-1740), poetess Griffith Milwyn Griffiths 15 May 2018 9 May - At the conclusion of the general election, new MPs for Welsh constituencies include Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (Pembroke Boroughs); Francis Edwardes (Haverfordwest) and Sir William Morgan for Brecon and Monmouthshire.William Retlaw Williams The Parliamentary History of Wales 1895 129 https://books.google.com/books?id=rbYlAAAAMAAJ 2007-10-17 June - William Wotton returns to London, where he continues to work on his Leges Wallicae, a translation of the old laws of Wales.Iolo Morganwg Geraint H. Jenkins Ffion Mair Jones David Ceri Jones The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg: 1797-1809 https://books.google.com/books?id=zu1nAAAAMAAJ 2007 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2133-1 116 Arts and literature New books Dwysfawr Rym Buchedd Grefyddols-CART-ISA-1741 Carter, Isaac (died 1741) yes Births 9 May - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian (died 1795)s-EDWA-MOR-1722 Edwards, Morgan (1722-1795); Baptist minister and historian Edward William Price Evans yes 30 September 2021 date unknown Thomas Crofts, priest, Fellow of the Royal Society, traveller and book-collector (died 1781) Rowland Jones, lawyer and philologist (died 1774) probable James Relly, Methodist minister (died 1778) Hugh Williams, clergyman and writer (died 1779)Williams, Hugh (1722?-1779), cleric and author s-WILL-HUG-1722 Jenkins Robert Thomas Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 1959 3 April 2009 Deaths 10 February - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle) Newark Peter The crimson book of pirates Jupiter London 1978 9780904041828 142 16 November - John Vaughan, reformer, 59 16 December - Abel Morgan, Baptist minister, pastor of Pennepack Baptist Church in Philadelphia, 49http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19212 Morgan, Abel (1673-1722) Geiter Mary K. 2004 Oxforddnb.com 4 October 2017 References 1722 Category:1720s in Wales Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales Category:1720 in Europe