1720 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1720 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1720 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 – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera) (until 7 March); Sir William Morgan of Tredegar (from 7 March) Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby Brown Richard Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 Routledge London England New York, NY 1991 9781134982707 25West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales W. Spurrell and son 1916 167 Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly13375 Hoadly, Benjamin 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 March - Sir William Morgan of Tredegar replaces John Morgan of Rhiwpera as Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire.Octavius Morgan Some Account of the Ancient Monuments in the Priory Church, Abergavenny https://archive.org/details/someaccountofa00morg 1872 Monmouthshire and Caerleon Antiquarian Association 76 21 August - Elisha Beadles sends an account of the progress of the Quaker movement in South Wales to London for consideration by the "Meeting for Sufferings".Elisha Beadles s-BEAD-ELI-1670 Thomas Mardy Rees 1959 15 March 2016 20 November - A violent storm damages the northwest tower of Llandaff Cathedral.Ebenezer Newell Llandaff Society for promoting Christian knowledge 1902 219 The southwest tower, reported in 1719 to be in a state of collapse, is further damaged, and a programme of restoration work begins. date unknown Charles Hanbury Williams succeeds to the estate of his godfather, and takes the surname Williams.Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways Earl of Ilchester Elizabeth Langford-Brooke The Life of Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams: Poet, Wit and Diplomatist https://books.google.com/books?id=9WPSAAAAMAAJ 1929 T. Butterworth, Limited 26 Llandaff Cathedral is reported as being in a state of collapse. The wrought-iron gates of St Giles' Church, Wrexham, made by the Davies brothers of Bersham, are erected.John Davies Nigel Jenkins Menna Baines The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ 2008 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1953-6 196 Arts and literature New books Robert Roberts - A duo-glott-exposition of the Creed, the ten Commandments and the Lords Prayer, calculated for the borders of England and Wales, but particularly for the use of the parish of Chirk, whose inhabitants are partly Welsh and partly English, by R. R. A. M. Vicar of the said parish of Chirks-ROBE-ROB-1680 ROBERTS, ROBERT (1680-1741), cleric Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 21 May 2018 Births date unknown Ralph Griffiths, journalist (died 1803) Roger Mostyn, canon of Windsor (died 1775) Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician (died 1792)Lamont-Brown, Raymond. Royal Poxes and Potions: Royal Doctors and Their Secrets https://books.google.com/books?id=RUo7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89 2009 History Press Stroud 978-0-7524-7390-1 89 Deaths 7 March - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/morgan-john-ii-1671-1720 MORGAN, John II (1671-1720), of Tredegar, Mon. History of Parliament Online (1690-1715) 18 August 2018 April/May - Robert Wynne, clergyman and poet 22 August - Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, politician, about 551690 Hayton D. W. Powell, Sir Thomas, 1st Bt. (c.1665-1720) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/powell-sir-thomas-1665-1720 29 August - Charles Williams, merchant, 87s-WILL-CHA-1633 WILLIAMS, CHARLES (1633-1720), benefactor of his native town, Caerleon-on-Usk Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 21 May 2018 probable - William Evans, Presbyterian minister and writer References 1720 Category:1720s in Wales Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales Category:1720 in Europe