1729 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1729 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 – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton (from 26 March)^[3]
• 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^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering (until 17 February);^[5] John Harris (from 19 October)^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare^{[7] [8]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[9]

Events

• 8 January - Prince Frederick, son of King George II, is created Prince of Wales, nearly two years after his father's accession.^[10]
• 1 March - A St. David's Society is established by Welsh immigrants in Philadelphia.
• 13 March - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel, marries Barbara Villiers, daughter of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey.
• 26 March - Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton is sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, the post having been vacant since 1715. After 1729, all Lords Lieutenant were also Custos Rotulorum of Glamorgan.^[3]
• 19 October - John Harris is consecrated as Bishop of Llandaff.
• date unknown
  • Zachariah Williams is admitted as a poor brother pensioner of the Charterhouse in London.
  • Lewis Morris, eldest of the noted Morris brothers of Anglesey, becomes a customs official.

Arts and literature

New books

• Christmas Samuel - Golwg ar y Testament Newydd^[11]
• Thomas Sherlock – The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus^[12]

Births

• 6 January - Anne Penny, née Hughes, poet (died 1784)^[13]
• probable - Joseph Turner, architect (died 1807)

Deaths

• 29 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, 64^[14]
• June - Thomas Baddy, Independent minister and author^[15]
• July - Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, 35?^[14]
• 1 September - Sir Richard Steele, satirist, 57^[16]
• unknown date - Malachi Jones, Welsh clergyman in Pennsylvania^[17]

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: Arthur Collins. The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. 1768. 235.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. s-HARR-JOH-1680. Harris, John (1680 - 1738), bishop of Llandaff . Thomas. Lawrence. 3 October 2021.
7. Book: Arthur Philip Perceval. An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. 1839. 197.
8. Book: Stephen Hyde Cassan. Lives of the Bishops of Bath. 1829. 162.
9. Smalbroke, Richard.
10. http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/the-prince-of-wales/titles-and-heraldry/previous-princes-of-wales l Previous Princes
11. s-SAMU-CHR-1674. Samuel, Christmas (1674-1764), Independent minister. John Dyfnallt Owen. yes. 3 October 2021.
12. Book: Bietenholz, Peter . Historia and fabula : myths and legends in historical thought from antiquity to the modern age . Brill . Leiden New York . 1994 . 9789004247130 . 321.
13. 74054. Penny [née Hughes; other married name Christian], Anne (bap. 1729, d. 1780/1784).
14. s-GLYN-PEN-1603. Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flintshire. David Jenkins. yes. 3 October 2021.
15. s-BADD-THO-1729. Baddy, Thomas (died 1729), Independent minister and author. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 3 October 2021.
16. Web site: Parish Church of St Peter, Carmarthen . BritishListedBuildings . 24 September 2018.
17. Book: Hodge. Charles. The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Philadelphia. 1839. William S. Martien. Philadelphia. 196].