• Source: 1726 in Wales

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


      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.
      26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:
      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
      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 of Nayland, 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)
      Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)
      probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)


      Deaths


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


      References

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