1730 in Wales
List of events
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1730 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos[1]
- Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock[4]
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris[5]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare[6][7]
- Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke[8]
Events
- August - Sir John Glynne succeeds to the family baronetcy, following the deaths of his father and elder brother in successive years.[9]
- William Hogarth is commissioned by Robert Jones of Fonmon Castle to paint The Jones Family Conversation Piece.[10]
- Construction work is carried out on the north-east wing of Bodysgallen Hall.[11]
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation[12]
Welsh language
- James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol[13]
- William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithieu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)[14]
Births
- date unknown
- probable – Thomas Nowell, academic (died 1801)[16]
Deaths
- 16 May – John Evans, clergyman, 50?[17]
- 19 June – Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician, 72[18]
- August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21[19]
- 28 November – James Phillips, MP for Carmarthen, 58[20]
- December – Owen Gruffydd, poet, 86/87[21]
References
- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
- ^ E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (23 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
- ^ Thomas, Lawrence. "Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
- ^ Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
- ^ "Smalbroke, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Jenkins, Dr. David. "Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
- ^ Peter Denney; Bruce Buchan; David Ellison (7 November 2018). Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850. Taylor & Francis. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-317-05250-0.
- ^ Country Life. Country Life, Limited. November 1978. p. 2069.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins; Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers; Evan David Jones. "Harris, Joseph (1704-1764), Assay-master at the Mint". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ William Rowlands (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century. John Pryse. p. 357.
- ^ Britton (1815). Beauties of England and Wales. T. Maiden. p. 202.
- ^ Sir Bernard Burke (1969). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke's Peerage. p. 502.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Nowell, Thomas (1730?-1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- ^ Arthur Herbert Dodd. "Evans, John (c.1680-1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
- ^ Rigg, James McMullen (1899). "Trevor, Thomas (1658-1730)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 228–230.
- ^ Pritchard, T. W. (2017). The Glynnes of Hawarden. Hawarden: Gladstone's Library. ISBN 9781527219052.
- ^ "Phillips, James (1672-1730), of Carmarthen". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ Thomas Powel; Sir Isambard Owen; Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore (1888). Y Cymmrodor: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 1.
