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