1732 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1732 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 – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
• 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 – Thomas Sherlock
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner (from 23 January)
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett (from 23 January)

Events

• 23 January - Thomas Tanner becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
• 1 July - Charles Hanbury Williams marries Frances, the daughter of earl Coningsby.
• John Wynne buys the Soughton Hall estate in Northop, Flintshire.
• A mineral spring is discovered at Llanwrtyd Wells by the Rev. Theophilus Evans.
• "Madam" Bridget Bevan begins her correspondence with Griffith Jones (Llanddowror).
• Artist Edward Owen is robbed and beaten in London, receiving serious injuries that contribute to his death some years later.
• Frederick, Prince of Wales, purchases Carlton House in London as his new home.
• Howell Harris becomes a schoolmaster at Llangors.
• Bishop John Wynne purchases the Northop estate in Flintshire.

Arts and literature

New books

• David Evans - A Help for parents and Heads of families ... by David Evans, a Labourer in the Gospel at Tredyffren in Pennsylvania (published in Philadelphia by B. Franklin)
• Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau sydd yn yr Hanes a Brintiwyd ynghylch Pedair i Bump Mlynedd i nawr, ym mherthynas i'r Rhwygiad a wnaethpwyd yn Eglwys Henllan yny Blynyddoedd 1707, 1708, 1709
• David Rees - Adnodau or rai Lleoedd Cableddus a Sarhaus o Lyfrau ... ar Fedydd Plant

Births

• 5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (died 1802)
• date unknown - Stafford Prys, bookseller and printer (died 1784)

Deaths

• April - Lady Pryce of Newtown Hall, second wife of Sir John Pryce , 5th baronet
• 4 December - William Baker, former Bishop of Bangor, 64
• 16 December - William Bradshaw, Bishop of Bristol, 61

References