1721 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1721 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1721 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 – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby (until 11 September); Brown Richard Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 Routledge London England New York 1991 9781134982707 25West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales W. Spurrell and son 1916 167James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (from 11 September) Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly (until 7 November);13375 Hoadly, Benjamin Richard Reynolds (from 3 December)Reynolds, 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 11 January – Printer Isaac Carter marries Ann Lewis at Cenarth.s-CART-ISA-1741 CARTER, ISAAC (d. 1741), printer William Llewelyn Davies 21 May 2018 May – Prince William, the youngest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, is taken ill with suspected smallpox; it turns out to be a false alarm, but inoculation becomes popular among aristocratic families as well as the royal family.Cedric A. Mims The War Within Us: Everyman's Guide to Infection and Immunity https://books.google.com/books?id=HqzRa1Ss16MC&pg=PA44 19 June 2000 Elsevier 978-0-08-054267-6 44–45 30 December – Bridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister. Arts and literature New books Ellis Pugh – Annerch ir Cymru (first Welsh book published in America)s-ELLI-ROW-1650 Ellis, Rowland (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker Bob Owen yes 28 March 2019 John Prichard Prys – Difyrwch Crefyddols-PRYS-PRI-1704 Prys, John Prichard (fl. c. 1704-1721), poet, of Eglwys-ael (Llangadwaladr) in Anglesey Ray Looker yes 28 March 2019 Births 17 March – Jonathan Hughes, poet (died 1805)s-HUGH-JON-1721 Hughes, Jonathan (1721 - 1805) yes 30 November – John Egerton, bishop of Bangor (died 1787) date unknown – John Walters, lexicographerhttp://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28644 Walters, John (bap. 1721, d. 1797) Crowe Richard Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press May 2005 12 February 2009 probable – Hugh Williams, Anglican priest and writer (died 1779) Deaths 20 March – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire and former MP for Cardiganshire, 53https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/vaughan-john-i-1667-1721 Vaughan, John I (1667-1721), of Trawscoed, Llanafan, Card. History of Parliament Online 30 September 2021 8 July – Elihu Yale, American-born East India merchant and benefactor of Yale University, 72 (died in London)Boston Erects Tablet in Honor of Elihu Yale http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1927/1/25/boston-erects-tablet-in-honor-of/ The Harvard Crimson 25 January 1927 2011-06-25 28 July – Sir Edward Williams, MP, 611690 Hayton D. W. Williams, Sir Edward (1659-1721) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/williams-sir-edward-1659-1721 3 September – Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, 58 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/glynne-sir-william-1663-1721 GLYNNE, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (1663-1721), of Bicester and Ambrosden, Oxon., and Hawarden, Flints. History of Parliament Online 27 June 2013 14 May 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140514204555/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/glynne-sir-william-1663-1721 dead 5 September – Thomas Edwards, orientalist, 69s-EDWA-THO-1652 Edwards, Thomas (1652 - 1721) yes References 1721 Category:1720s in Wales Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales Category:1721 in Europe Category:1721 by country