1730s in Wales

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - Frederick

Princess of Wales - Augusta (from 17 April, 1736)

Events

1730 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735 1736 1737 1738 1739

New books

1730

Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation

James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol

William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithjeu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)

1731

Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum

Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys

1732

David Evans - The Minister of Christ and his Flock

Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau

1734

Edmund Curll - The Life of Robert Price … one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas

Births

1731

date unknown - Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (d. 1806)

1732

5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (d. 1802)

1734

3 July - Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (d. 1794)

24 October - Thomas Henry, apothecary (d. 1816)

1736

date unknown - Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician (d. 1807)

1737

13 May - Thomas Williams of Llanidan, industrialist (d. 1802)

31 August - Princess Augusta, eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1813)

date unknown - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, politician and slave-owner (d. 1808)

1738

4 June - Prince George, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1820)

date unknown - David Williams, philosopher (d. 1816)

1739

14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1767)

date unknown

Richard Crawshay, industrialist (d. 1810)

Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (d. 1810)

Deaths

1730

August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21

December - Owen Gruffydd, poet

date unknown - Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician

1731

6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer

September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader (in America)

1732

2 February - Robert Price, judge, 79

1733

22 January - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke

date unknown

John Morgan, poet

Sir Robert Myddelton, 5th Baronet

John Myddelton of Chirk Castle, politician

1734

2 June - Francis Gwyn, politician, 85?

14 June - John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?

13 July - Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63

1737

14 February - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, 52

20 November - Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, consort of King George II of Great Britain and former Princess of Wales (1714-1727), 54

date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete, 37

1738

27 September - Sir Thomas Stradling, 28 (in a duel)

1739

5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65