1726 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1726 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726 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 – William BakerBaker, William (1668-1732) 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 – John Wynne Stephen Hyde Cassan Lives of the Bishops of Bath 1829 162 Bishop of St Davids – Richard SmalbrokeSmalbroke, Richard Events 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.6442 1 11 January 1725 26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain. November - John Verney is appointed a judge in Wales by prime minister Robert Walpole, after switching his political allegiance.Edwin Poole The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions ... ; Illustrated by Several Engravings and Portraits https://books.google.com/books?id=1gQVAAAAQAAJ 1886 426 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:6533 1 26 November 1726 Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire).M. Bevan-Evans Guide to the Flintshire Record Office: Flintshire Quarter Sessions, and Other Official Records https://books.google.com/books?id=7_UIAQAAIAAJ 1955 Flintshire Record Office 91 Thomas Rowland of Cayrey (Anglesey). Richard Wellington of Hay Castle (Brecknockshire). Humphrey Roberts, Brynneuadd, (Caernarvonshire). David Lewis of Gernos (Cardiganshire). John Lloyd of Danyrallt (Carmarthenshire). Edward Salusbury of Galltfaenan (Denbighshire). Morgan Morgan of Llanrumney (Glamorgan). Athelstan Owen of Rhiwaedog (Merionethshire/Montgomeryshire). Richard Lewis of Court-y-Gallon (Monmouthshire). David Lewis, of Vogart or Llandewi (Pembrokeshire). Edward Burton of Vronlas (Radnorshire). date unknown - Poet Anna Williams and her father Zachariah move into the London Charterhouse while he experiments in using magnetism in pursuit of the longitude prize. Road bridges built Pont Fadog, Dyffryn Ardudwy. Teifi bridge, Cardigan. Arts and literature New books John Dyer - Grongar HillMartin C. Battestin Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin https://books.google.com/books?id=1OyAk99WnPkC&pg=PA29 1997 University of Delaware Press 978-0-87413-616-6 29 (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands) Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium PoeticumGriffith John Williams Agweddau Ar Hanes Dysg Gymraeg https://books.google.com/books?id=q1g8AAAAIAAJ 1969 Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru cy 99 Births 26 March - Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/myddelton-robert-1678-1733 MYDDELTON, Robert (1678-1733), of Chirk Castle, Denb. History of Parliament Online 3 December 2018 13 February 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250213005423/https://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/myddelton-robert-1678-1733 dead 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798)s-PENN-THO-1726 Pennant, Thaoms (1726-1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller Ellis Davies 6 September 2020 30 July - William Jones of Nayland, clergyman and author (died 1800)Jones, William (1726-1800) June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795)http://cylchgronaucymru.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1073091/llgc-id:1082250/llgc-id:1082641/getText A rank Republican (and) a leveller: William Jones Welsh History Review: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru 17 1–4 367 Jenkins, Geraint H. 1994–1995 22 April 2011 date unknown - Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)Henry D. Rack, ‘Wesley, Charles (1707–1788)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 accessed 29 Sept 2013 probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)s-EDWA-EDW-1726 Edwards, Edward (1726?–1783?), cleric and scholar Jenkins Robert Thomas yes 1 November 2021 Deaths 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/gwynne-rowland-1658-1726 GWYNNE, Rowland (c.1658-1726), of Llanelwedd, Rad. History of Parliament Online 22 February 2020 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27 date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68s-WILL-THO-1658 Williams, Thomas (1658–1726), cleric and translator Thomas Iorwerth Ellis Ellis Thomas Iorwerth 1959 yes 1 November 2021 References 1726 Category:1720s in Wales Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales Category:1726 in Europe