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1732 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1732 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - Frederick
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

    • Events

  • 23 January - Thomas Tanner becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
  • 1 July - Charles Hanbury Williams marries Frances, the daughter of earl Coningsby.
  • John Wynne buys the Soughton Hall estate in Northop, Flintshire.
  • A mineral spring is discovered at Llanwrtyd Wells by the Rev. Theophilus Evans.
  • "Madam" Bridget Bevan begins her correspondence with Griffith Jones (Llanddowror).
  • Artist Edward Owen is robbed and beaten in London, receiving serious injuries that contribute to his death some years later.
  • The Prince of Wales purchases Carlton House in London as his new home.
  • Howell Harris becomes a schoolmaster at Llangors.
  • Bishop John Wynne purchases the Northop estate in Flintshire.

    • New books

  • David Evans - A Help for parents and Heads of families … by David Evans, a Labourer in the Gospel at Tredyffren in Pennsylvania (published in Philadelphia by B. Franklin)
  • Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau sydd yn yr Hanes a Brintiwyd ynghylch Pedair i Bump Mlynedd i nawr, ym mherthynas i'r Rhwygiad a wnaethpwyd yn Eglwys Henllan yny Blynyddoedd 1707, 1708, 1709
  • David Rees - Adnodau or rai Lleoedd Cableddus a Sarhaus o Lyfrau … ar Fedydd Plant

    • Births

  • 5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (died 1802)
  • date unknown - Stafford Prys, bookseller and printer (died 1784)

    • Deaths

  • 2 February - Robert Price, judge, 79
  • April - Lady Pryce of Newtown Hall, second wife of Sir John Pryce , 5th baronet
  • 16 December - William Bradshaw, Bishop of Bristol, 61

    • References

    1732 in Wales Wikipedia
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