1721 in Wales explained

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 Cholmondeley^{[1] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar (from 7 March)^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne (until 20 March); John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne (from 21 March)^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby (until 11 September);^{[3] [4]} James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (from 11 September)^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly (until 7 November);^[5] Richard Reynolds (from 3 December)^[6]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler^[7]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne^[8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley

Events

• 11 January – Printer Isaac Carter marries Ann Lewis at Cenarth.^[9]
• 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.^[10]
• 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)^[11]
• John Prichard Prys – Difyrwch Crefyddol^[12]

Births

• 17 March – Jonathan Hughes, poet (died 1805)^[13]
• 30 November – John Egerton, bishop of Bangor (died 1787)
• date unknown – John Walters, lexicographer^[14]
• 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, 53^[15]
• 8 July – Elihu Yale, American-born East India merchant and benefactor of Yale University, 72 (died in London)^[16]
• 28 July – Sir Edward Williams, MP, 61
• 3 September – Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, 58^[17]
• 5 September – Thomas Edwards, orientalist, 69^[18]

Notes and References

1. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
2. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
3. Book: Brown, Richard . Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 . Routledge . London England New York . 1991 . 9781134982707 . 25.
4. Book: West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1916. 167.
5. 13375. Hoadly, Benjamin.
6. Reynolds, Richard (1674–1743).
7. 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
8. Book: Stephen Hyde Cassan. Lives of the Bishops of Bath. 1829. 162.
9. s-CART-ISA-1741. CARTER, ISAAC (d. 1741), printer. William Llewelyn Davies. 21 May 2018.
10. Book: Cedric A. Mims. The War Within Us: Everyman's Guide to Infection and Immunity. 19 June 2000. Elsevier. 978-0-08-054267-6. 44–45.
11. s-ELLI-ROW-1650. Ellis, Rowland (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker. Bob Owen. yes. 28 March 2019.
12. s-PRYS-PRI-1704. Prys, John Prichard (fl. c. 1704-1721), poet, of Eglwys-ael (Llangadwaladr) in Anglesey. Ray Looker. yes. 28 March 2019.
13. s-HUGH-JON-1721. Hughes, Jonathan (1721 - 1805). yes.
14. Web site: Walters, John (bap. 1721, d. 1797). Crowe. Richard. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. May 2005. 12 February 2009.
15. Web site: Vaughan, John I (1667-1721), of Trawscoed, Llanafan, Card.. History of Parliament Online. 30 September 2021.
16. Web site: Boston Erects Tablet in Honor of Elihu Yale. The Harvard Crimson. 25 January 1927. 2011-06-25 .
17. Web site: GLYNNE, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (1663-1721), of Bicester and Ambrosden, Oxon., and Hawarden, Flints.. History of Parliament Online. 27 June 2013.
18. s-EDWA-THO-1652. Edwards, Thomas (1652 - 1721). yes.