1722 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1722 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George II)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach
Events
- 9 May - At the conclusion of the general election, new MPs for Welsh constituencies include Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (Pembroke Boroughs); Francis Edwardes (Haverfordwest) and Sir William Morgan for Brecon and Monmouthshire.[1]
Arts and literature
New books
- Dwysfawr Rym Buchedd Grefyddol[2]
Births
- 9 May - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian (died 1795)
- date unknown
- Thomas Crofts, priest, Fellow of the Royal Society, traveller and book-collector (died 1781)
- Rowland Jones, lawyer and philologist (died 1774)
- probable - James Relly, Methodist minister (died 1778)
Deaths
- 10 February - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle)
- 16 November - John Vaughan, reformer, 59
References
- ^ Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The Parliamentary History of Wales. p. 129. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
- ^ Welsh Biography Online - Isaac Carter