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1726 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 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.

    • New books

  • John Dyer - Grongar Hill (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
  • Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum

    • Births

  • 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)

    • Deaths

  • 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67
  • 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
  • date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68

    • References

    1726 in Wales Wikipedia
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