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1732 in Wales
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1732
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1732 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 – Thomas Morgan
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 – Thomas Tanner (from 23 January)Arthur Philip Perceval An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders 1839 197Tanner, Thomas (1674-1735) 55 William Prideaux Courtney
Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett (from 23 January)Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales University Press 1854 304
Events
23 January - Thomas Tanner becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
1 July - Charles Hanbury Williams marries Frances, the daughter of earl Coningsby.s-WILL-HAN-1708 Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury yes 1 November 2021
John Wynne buys the Soughton Hall estate in Northop, Flintshire.
A mineral spring is discovered at Llanwrtyd Wells by the Rev. Theophilus Evans.
"Madam" Bridget Bevan begins her correspondence with Griffith Jones (Llanddowror).s-BEVA-BRI-1698 Bevan, Bridget (1698-1732), philanthropist and educationist Mary Clement yes 29 March 2020
Artist Edward Owen is robbed and beaten in London, receiving serious injuries that contribute to his death some years later.BBC News - "Edward Owen's 'lost' self-portrait on show in Gwynedd", 13 November 2011. Accessed 13 November 2013
Frederick, Prince of Wales, purchases Carlton House in London as his new home.John Summerson, Georgian London (Barrie & Jenkins, 1986 ed.)
Howell Harris becomes a schoolmaster at Llangors.
Bishop John Wynne purchases the Northop estate in Flintshire.
Arts and literature
New books
David Evans - A Help for parents and Heads of families ... by David Evans, a Labourer in the Gospel at Tredyffren in Pennsylvania (published in Philadelphia by B. Franklin)
Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau sydd yn yr Hanes a Brintiwyd ynghylch Pedair i Bump Mlynedd i nawr, ym mherthynas i'r Rhwygiad a wnaethpwyd yn Eglwys Henllan yny Blynyddoedd 1707, 1708, 1709s-MAUR-MAT-1684 Maurice, Mathias (1684-1738), Independent minister and writer Robert Thomas Jenkins George Thomas Streather yes 29 March 2020
David Rees - Adnodau or rai Lleoedd Cableddus a Sarhaus o Lyfrau ... ar Fedydd Plant
Births
5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (died 1802)http://oxforddnb.com/view/article/15431?docPos=1 Oxford DNB article: Kenyon, Lloyd (subscription needed) Hay Douglas 2004 Oxford University Press 18 March 2010
date unknown - Stafford Prys, bookseller and printer (died 1784)s-PRYS-STA-1732 Prys, Stafford (1732-1784), bookseller and printer of books at Shrewsbury yes 29 March 2020
Deaths
April - Lady Pryce of Newtown Hall, second wife of Sir John Pryce, 5th baronet
4 December - William Baker, former Bishop of Bangor, 64Baker, William (1668-1732)
16 December - William Bradshaw, Bishop of Bristol, 61Bradshaw, William (1671-1732)
References
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