1726 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726 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
• 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
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke

Events

• 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.
• 26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.
• November - John Verney is appointed a judge in Wales by prime minister Robert Walpole, after switching his political allegiance.
• 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:
• Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire).
• Thomas Rowland of Cayrey (Anglesey).
• Richard Wellington of Hay Castle (Brecknockshire).
• Humphrey Roberts, Brynneuadd, (Caernarvonshire).
• David Lewis of Gernos (Cardiganshire).
• John Lloyd of Danyrallt (Carmarthenshire).
• Edward Salusbury of Galltfaenan (Denbighshire).
• Morgan Morgan of Llanrumney (Glamorgan).
• Athelstan Owen of Rhiwaedog (Merionethshire/Montgomeryshire).
• Richard Lewis of Court-y-Gallon (Monmouthshire).
• David Lewis, of Vogart or Llandewi (Pembrokeshire).
• Edward Burton of Vronlas (Radnorshire).
• date unknown - Poet Anna Williams and her father Zachariah move into the London Charterhouse while he experiments in using magnetism in pursuit of the longitude prize.
• Road bridges built
• Pont Fadog, Dyffryn Ardudwy.
• Teifi bridge, Cardigan.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Dyer - Grongar Hill (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
• Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum

Births

• 26 March - Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)
• 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798)
• 30 July - William Jones of Nayland, clergyman and author (died 1800)
• June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795)
• date unknown - Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)
• probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)

Deaths

• 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67
• 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
• date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68

References