1725 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1725 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 (until 18 January); George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (from 7 April)
• 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 – Robert Clavering (from 2 January)
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke (from 3 February)

Events

• 7 April - George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, succeeds his late brother as Lord Lieutenant of North Wales.
• 4 May - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks.
• date unknown
• Silvanus Bevan is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the recommendation of Sir Isaac Newton.
• Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, marries Elizabeth Shepherd.
• Matthew Maddox becomes organist of St David's Cathedral.

Arts and literature

New books

• Dafydd Lewis - Golwg ar y Byd
• William Lewis & Evan Pryce - Maddeuant i'r Edifairiol

Births

• 28 March - William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger), politician (died 1763)
• May - Llewellin Penrose, painter and writer (died 1791)
• 7 September - Francis Homfray, industrialist (died 1798)
• date unknown - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary (died 1790)

Deaths

• 18 January - Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 62
• 20 July - Edward Jeffreys, 55, judge
• 25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA.
• 29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.
• 15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician
• date unknown - Silvanus Bevan, burgess of Swansea

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