1726 in Wales explained

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 Cholmondeley^{[1] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – William Baker^[3]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering^[4]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne^[5]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[6]

Events

• 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.
• 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.^[7]
• 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:
  • Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire).^[8]
  • 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, London, 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 Hill^[9] (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
• Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum^[10]

Births

• 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798)^[11]
• 30 July - William Jones of Nayland, clergyman and author (died 1800)^[12]
• June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795)^[13]
• date unknown
  • Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)^[14]
  • Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)^[15]
• probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)^[16]

Deaths

• 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67^[17]
• 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
• date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68^[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. Baker, William (1668-1732).
4. Book: Bray, Gerald . Records of Convocation . Boydell Press in association with the Church of England Record Society . Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY . 2005 . 9781843832270 . 298.
5. Book: Stephen Hyde Cassan. Lives of the Bishops of Bath. 1829. 162.
6. Smalbroke, Richard.
7. Book: 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. 1886. 426.
8. Book: M. Bevan-Evans. Guide to the Flintshire Record Office: Flintshire Quarter Sessions, and Other Official Records. 1955. Flintshire Record Office. 91.
9. Book: Martin C. Battestin. Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin. 1997. University of Delaware Press. 978-0-87413-616-6. 29.
10. Book: Griffith John Williams. Agweddau Ar Hanes Dysg Gymraeg. 1969. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. cy. 99.
11. s-PENN-THO-1726. Pennant, Thaoms (1726-1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller. Ellis Davies. 6 September 2020.
12. Jones, William (1726-1800).
13. Web site: A rank Republican (and) a leveller: William Jones . . 17. 1–4. 367 . Jenkins, Geraint H. . 1994–1995 . 22 April 2011.
14. Henry D. Rack, ‘Wesley, Charles (1707–1788)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 accessed 29 Sept 2013
15. Web site: MYDDELTON, Robert (1678-1733), of Chirk Castle, Denb. . History of Parliament Online. 3 December 2018.
16. s-EDWA-EDW-1726 . Edwards, Edward (1726? - 1783?), cleric and scholar . Jenkins. Robert Thomas . yes . 1 November 2021.
17. Web site: GWYNNE, Rowland (c.1658-1726), of Llanelwedd, Rad.. History of Parliament Online. 22 February 2020.
18. s-WILL-THO-1658. Williams, Thomas (1658 - 1726), cleric and translator. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. Ellis. Thomas Iorwerth . 1959. yes. 1 November 2021.