1730 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1730 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^[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 – John Harris^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare^{[6] [7]}
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[8]

Events

• August - Sir John Glynne succeeds to the family baronetcy, following the deaths of his father and elder brother in successive years.^[9]
• William Hogarth is commissioned by Robert Jones of Fonmon Castle to paint The Jones Family Conversation Piece.^[10]
• Construction work is carried out on the north-east wing of Bodysgallen Hall.^[11]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation^[12]

Welsh language

• James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol^[13]
• William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithieu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)^[14]

Births

• date unknown
  • Samuel Levi Phillips, banker (died 1812)^[15]
  • Nathaniel Thomas, writer (died c.1768)
• probable – Thomas Nowell, academic (died 1801)^[16]

Deaths

• 16 May – John Evans, clergyman, 50?^[17]
• 19 June – Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician, 72^[18]
• August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21^[19]
• 28 November – James Phillips, MP for Carmarthen, 58^[20]
• December – Owen Gruffydd, poet, 86/87^[21]

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. s-HARR-JOH-1680. Harris, John (1680 - 1738), bishop of Llandaff . Thomas. Lawrence. 3 October 2021.
6. Book: Arthur Philip Perceval. An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. 1839. 197.
7. Book: Stephen Hyde Cassan. Lives of the Bishops of Bath. 1829. 162.
8. Smalbroke, Richard.
9. Dr. David . Jenkins . Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints. . s-GLYN-PEN-1603 . yes . 13 August 2007.
10. Book: Peter Denney. Bruce Buchan. David Ellison. Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850. 7 November 2018. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-317-05250-0. 11.
11. Book: Country Life. November 1978. Country Life, Limited. 2069.
12. s-HARR-JOS-1704. Harris, Joseph (1704-1764), Assay-master at the Mint. Robert Thomas Jenkins. Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. Evan David Jones. 5 February 2024.
13. Book: William Rowlands. Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century. 1869. John Pryse. 357.
14. Book: Britton. Beauties of England and Wales. 1815. T. Maiden. 202.
15. Book: Sir Bernard Burke. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. 1969. Burke's Peerage. 502.
16. s-NOWE-THO-1730. Nowell, Thomas (1730?-1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 5 February 2024.
17. s-EVAN-JOH-1680. Evans, John (c.1680-1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian. Arthur Herbert Dodd. yes. 3 October 2021.
18. Rigg . James McMullen . Trevor, Thomas (1658-1730) . 57. 228–230.
19. Book: Pritchard, T. W. . The Glynnes of Hawarden . Hawarden . Gladstone's Library . 2017 . 9781527219052 .
20. Web site: Phillips, James (1672-1730), of Carmarthen. History of Parliament Online. 28 November 2018.
21. Book: Thomas Powel . Thomas Powel . Sir Isambard Owen . Isambard Owen . Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore . Y Cymmrodor: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion . 1888 . The Society . 1.