1726 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George II)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach

Events

• 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.^[1]
• 26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.
• 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:^[2]
  • Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire).
  • 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
  • John Verney is appointed a judge in Wales by prime minister Robert Walpole, after switching his political allegiance.
  • 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 (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
• Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum

Births

• 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798)
• 30 July - William Jones, clergyman and author (died 1800)
• June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795)
• date unknown
  • Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)^[3]
  • Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)
• probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)^[4]

Deaths

• 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67
• 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
• date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68^[5]

References

1. The London Gazette: no. 6442. p. 1. 11 January 1725. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
2. The London Gazette: no. 6533. p. 1. 26 November 1726. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
3. Henry D. Rack, ‘Wesley, Charles (1707–1788)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 accessed 29 Sept 2013
4. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Edwards, Edward (1726?–1783?), cleric and scholar". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
5. Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth (2007). "Williams, Thomas (1658–1726), cleric and translator". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2009.