1722 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1722 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar (from 7 March)
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne (until 20 March); John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne (from 21 March)
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (from 11 September)

• Bishop of Bangor – Richard Reynolds
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley

Events

• February - Jane Brereton's husband Thomas drowns in the River Dee at Saltney; following his death, she returns to live in Wrexham.
• 9 May - At the conclusion of the general election, new MPs for Welsh constituencies include Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (Pembroke Boroughs); Francis Edwardes (Haverfordwest) and Sir William Morgan for Brecon and Monmouthshire.
• June - William Wotton returns to London, where he continues to work on his Leges Wallicae, a translation of the old laws of Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

• Dwysfawr Rym Buchedd Grefyddol

Births

• 9 May - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian (died 1795)
• date unknown
• Thomas Crofts, priest, Fellow of the Royal Society, traveller and book-collector (died 1781)
• Rowland Jones, lawyer and philologist (died 1774)
• probable
• James Relly, Methodist minister (died 1778)
• Hugh Williams, clergyman and writer (died 1779)

Deaths

• 10 February - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle)
• 16 November - John Vaughan, reformer, 59
• 16 December - Abel Morgan, Baptist minister, pastor of Pennepack Baptist Church in Philadelphia, 49

References