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) â Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley (until 18 January); George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (from 7 April)
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â vacant until 1729
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Sir William Morgan of Tredegar
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
Events
Arts and literature
New books
- Dafydd Lewis - Golwg ar y Byd
- William Lewis & Evan Pryce - Maddeuant i'r Edifairiol
Births
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
References