1725 in Wales

Updated on Oct 26, 2023

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1725 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George II)

Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach

4 May - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks.

date unknown

Silvanus Bevan is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the recommendation of Sir Isaac Newton.

Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, marries Elizabeth Shepherd.

Matthew Maddox becomes organist of St David's Cathedral.

Dafydd Lewis - Golwg ar y Byd

28 March - William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger), politician (died 1763)

May - Llewellin Penrose, painter and writer (died 1791)

7 September - Francis Homfray, industrialist (died 1798)

date unknown - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary (died 1790)

20 July - Edward Jeffreys, 55, judge

25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA.

29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.

15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician

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