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1720 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
16th 17th 18th 19th 20th

Decades:
  
1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1720 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • Charles Hanbury Williams succeeds to the estate of his godfather, and takes the surname Williams.
  • Llandaff Cathedral is reported as being in a state of collapse.
  • Sir William Morgan of Tredegar replaces John Morgan of Rhiwpera as Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire.

    • New books

  • Robert Roberts - A duo-glott-exposition of the Creed, the ten Commandments and the Lords Prayer, calculated for the borders of England and Wales, but particularly for the use of the parish of Chirk, whose inhabitants are partly Welsh and partly English, by R. R. A. M. Vicar of the said parish of Chirk

    • Births

  • date unknown - Roger Mostyn, canon of Windsor (died 18775)

    • Deaths

  • March 7 - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49
  • April/May - Robert Wynne, clergyman and poet
  • August 29 - Charles Williams, merchant, 87
  • December 31 - John Wynne, industrialist
  • date unknown - Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, 55?
  • probable - William Evans, Presbyterian minister and writer

    • References

    1720 in Wales Wikipedia
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