1728 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1728 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 – Thomas Sherlock (from 4 February)
• Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering^[3]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare^{[4] [5]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[6]

Events

• 4 February - Thomas Sherlock is consecrated Bishop of Bangor.^[7]
• August - Richard Smalbroke, Bishop of St Davids, commends the treatise on the authority of Scripture by Faustus Socinus, with the result that the work is translated into English and published in 1731 with a dedication to the Queen, Caroline of Ansbach.
• date unknown
  • The Coronet of Frederick, Prince of Wales, is made, probably by royal goldsmith Samuel Shales, at a cost of £140 5/- (one hundred and forty pounds and five shillings)^[8]
  • Poet John Morgan becomes vicar of Matching, Essex, which leads to his commonly being known as John Morgan Matchin.^[9]
  • Main Street North Wales, Pennsylvania, originally an old Indian trail, is laid out as the "Great Road".
  • Watkin Williams-Wynn, the future 3rd Baronet, is mayor of Oswestry.^[10]

Arts and literature

New books

• Richard Lewis, Muscipula, a translation of Edward Holdsworth's Latin satire on the Welsh^[11]
• John Roderick, Grammadeg Cymraeg^[12]

Music

• The traditional Welsh folk tune, "The Ash Grove", or something very similar, is featured in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

Births

• date unknown
  • John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson, English industrialist, owner of Bersham Ironworks and Brymbo Hall (died 1808)^[13]
• probable
  • Daines Barrington, judge in North Wales (died 1800^[14]
  • Edward Owen, translator (died 1807)^[15]

Deaths

• 13 September - William Gambold, grammarian, 56^[16]

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: Bray, Gerald . Records of Convocation . Boydell Press in association with the Church of England Record Society . Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY . 2005 . 9781843832270 . 298.
4. Book: Arthur Philip Perceval. An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. 1839. 197.
5. Book: Stephen Hyde Cassan. Lives of the Bishops of Bath. 1829. 162.
6. Smalbroke, Richard.
7. Book: E. B. Pryde. D. E. Greenway. S. Porter. I. Roy. Handbook of British Chronology. 23 February 1996. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-56350-5. 292.
8. Book: Francis Jones. The Princes and Principality of Wales. 1969. University of Wales P.. 978-0-900768-20-0. 194.
9. Web site: Morgan, John (1688 - 1733/4) . Edwards . Huw M. . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access) . Oxford University Press. 2004 . 2008-04-10.
10. Book: The Complete Baronetage, Volume IV. Cokayne. G.E.. 1904. William Pollard & Co. 150.
11. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004,, retrieved via Google Books
12. s-RODE-JOH-1675. Roderick John (John or Sion Rhydderch) (1673-1735), grammarian, printer and publisher of almanacks and books, poet, and eisteddfodwr. William Llewelyn Davies. Enid Pierce Roberts. Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. 1 November 2021.
13. http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/heritage/brymbo_steelworks/last_tap.htm Brymbo Steelworks – The last tap
14. David Philip . Miller . Barrington, Daines (1727/8–1800) . 2004 . 2008 . 1529.
15. Web site: Owen, Edward (1728/9 - 1807) . Sutton . C. W. . Brown . Sarah Annes . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004 . 10 March 2009.
16. s-GAMB-OLD-1650. Gambold family. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 2 October 2021.