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1720s in Wales

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

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales
  • George (until 1727) (became George II)
  • Frederick (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

  • 4 May - 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

  • 26 July - 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

  • 8 January - Prince Frederick, son of King George II, is created Prince of Wales, nearly two years after his father's accession.
  • 1 March - A St. David's Society is established by Welsh immigrants in Philadelphia.
  • 19 October - John Harris becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
  • Zachariah Williams is admitted as a poor brother pensioner of the Charterhouse in London.

    • 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

    • Births

    1720

  • July 22 - Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1769)

    • 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)
  • William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (d. 1795)

    • Deaths

    1720

  • 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

    • 1721

  • July 8 - Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale University, 72
  • date unknown - Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet

    • 1722

  • February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle)
  • November 16 - John Vaughan, reformer, 59

    • 1723

  • December 28 - Sir Charles Lloyd, 1st Baronet, of Milfield, politician, 61

    • 1724

  • March 22 - John Evans, Bishop of Bangor and Meath, 73?
  • June 1 - Erasmus Saunders, clergyman, 54?
  • date unknown - Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley

    • 1725

  • December 15 - Francis Edwardes, politician

    • 1729

  • April 29 - Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, 64
  • September - Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, 35?
  • September 1 - Sir Richard Steele, satirist, 57

    • References

    1720s in Wales Wikipedia
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