1724 in Wales

none September 2019 May 2020 1724 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1724 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 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 – John Tyler (until 8 July)From: '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 – Richard Smalbroke (from 3 February)Smalbroke, Richard Events 14 September - Robert Clavering, a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, is nominated to succeed John Tyler as Bishop of Llandaff. The Shire Hall, Monmouth, is built.Alfred John Taylor Monmouth Castle and Great Castle House, Monmouthshire https://books.google.com/books?id=CksjAAAAMAAJ 1951 H.M. Stationery Office 20 A charity school is built at Caerleon as the result of a bequest from Charles Williams.Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru https://books.google.com/books?id=RYpnAAAAMAAJ 1980 University of Wales Press 276 The title of Baron Bergavenny is inherited by William Nevill. Arts and literature New books William Wynne - The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkinss-WYNN-OWE-1652 WYNNE, OWEN (1652–?), civil servant A. H. Dodd A. H. Dodd 25 June 2018 Births 26 April (baptised) - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (died 1811)s-EDDO-JOS-1724 Eddowes, Joshua (1724-1811), printer and bookseller at Shrewsbury William Llewelyn Davies yes 2 October 2021 17 May - Gabriel Jones, Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant (died 1806) 22 September - John Parry, lawyer and politician (died 1797) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/parry-john-1724-97 PARRY, John (1724–97), of Wernfawr, Caern. History of Parliament Online 25 June 2018 4 December - Princess Louise of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1751) date unknown - George Rice, politician (died 1779)http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/rice-george-1724-79 RICE, George (?1724-79), of Newton Castle, Carm. History of Parliament Online 25 June 2018 Deaths 8 January - Mary Herbert, Marchioness of Powis, age unknown13061 Herbert, William Paul Hopkins 22 March - John Evans, Bishop of Bangor and Meath, 73?Evans, John (d.1724) 1 June - Erasmus Saunders, clergyman, 54? 4 June - Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, 41Thomas Peter D.G. Bulkeley, Richard, 4th Visct. Bulkeley [I] (1682-1724), of Baron Hill, Anglesey http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/bulkeley-richard-1682-1724 The History of Parliament 25 August 2014 3 December 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131203152552/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/bulkeley-richard-1682-1724 dead 8 July - John Tyler, Bishop of Llandaff, 8467980 John Tyler Stuart Handley 15 December - Stephen Parry, MP for Cardigan Boroughs, 49 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/parry-stephen-1675-1724 PARRY, Stephen (1675-1724), of Neuadd Trefawr, Card. History of Parliament Online 18 August 2018 date unknown - Jeremiah Jones, independent tutor and biblical critic, 30/31Jones, Jeremiah 30 References 1724 Category:1720s in Wales Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales Category:1720 in Europe