1720s in Wales

1720s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1720 - 1729 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales
**George, Prince of Wales (until 1727)
**Frederick, Prince of Wales (from January 8 1729)
*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach (until 1727)

Events

1720
*Charles Hanbury Williams succeeds to the estate of his godfather, and takes the surname Williams.1721
*December 30 - Bridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister.1724
*A charity school is built at Caerleon-on-Usk as the result of a bequest from Charles Williams.1725
*May 4 - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks.
*Silvanus Bevan is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the recommendation of Sir Isaac Newton.1726
*July 26 - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.1727
*The Piercefield estate is sold for £3,366, 5.6d to Thomas Rous of Wotton-under-Edge.1729
*January 8 - Prince Frederick, son of King George II, is created Prince of Wales, nearly two years after his father's accession.
*March 1 - A St. David's Society is established by Welsh immigrants in Philadelphia.
*October 19 - John Harris becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
*Zachariah Williams is admitted as a poor brother pensioner of the Charterhouse in London.

Arts and literature

New books

1721
*Ellis Pugh - "Annerch ir Cymru" (first Welsh book published in America)1723
*Henry Rowlands - "Mona Antiqua Restaurata"
*Christmas Samuel - "Llun Agrippa"1724
*Owen Wynne - "The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins"1725
*Dafydd Lewys - "Golwg ar y Byd"1729
*Christmas Samuel - "Golwg ar y Testament Newydd"

Music

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Births

1722
*May 9 - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian (d. 1795)1723
*February 23 - Richard Price, philosopher (d. 1791)
*March 5 - Princess Mary of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1772)1724
*April - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (d. 1811)
*December 4 - Princess Louise of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1751)1725
*May - Llewellin Penrose, painter
*September 7 - Francis Homfray, industrialist (d. 1798)1726
*June 14 - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (d. 1798)

Deaths

1720
*March 7 - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49
*April/May - Robert Wynne, clergyman and poet
*August 29 - Charles Williams, merchant, 871721
*July 8 - Elihu Yale, founder of Yale University, 72
*"date unknown" - Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet1722
*November 16 - John Vaughan, reformer, 591724
*March 22 - John Evans, Bishop of Bangor and Meath, 73?
*June 1 - Erasmus Saunders, clergyman, 54?
*"date unknown" - Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley1725
*December 15 - Francis Edwardes, politician1729
*April 29 - Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, 64
*September - Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, 35?
*September 1 - Sir Richard Steele, satirist, 57


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