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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726 to Wales and its people.
Prince of Wales - George (later George II)
Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach
11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.
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: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.
John Dyer - Grongar Hill (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum
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)
Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)
probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)
25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67
3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68
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