1724 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1724 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
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
• 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

• Bishop of Bangor – William Baker
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler (until 8 July)
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke (from 3 February)

Events

• 14 September - Robert Clavering, a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, is nominated to succeed John Tyler as Bishop of Llandaff.
• The Shire Hall, Monmouth, is built.
• A charity school is built at Caerleon as the result of a bequest from Charles Williams.
• The title of Baron Bergavenny is inherited by William Nevill.

Arts and literature

New books

• William Wynne - The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins

Births

• 26 April (baptised) - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (died 1811)
• 17 May - Gabriel Jones, Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant (died 1806)
• 22 September - John Parry, lawyer and politician (died 1797)
• 4 December - Princess Louise of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1751)
• date unknown - George Rice, politician (died 1779)

Deaths

• 8 January - Mary Herbert, Marchioness of Powis, age unknown
• 22 March - John Evans, Bishop of Bangor and Meath, 73?
• 1 June - Erasmus Saunders, clergyman, 54?
• 4 June - Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, 41
• 8 July - John Tyler, Bishop of Llandaff, 84
• 15 December - Stephen Parry, MP for Cardigan Boroughs, 49
• date unknown - Jeremiah Jones, independent tutor and biblical critic, 30/31

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