1721 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1721 to Wales and its people.

← 1720 1719 1718 1717 1716 1721 in Wales → 1722 1723 1724 1725 1726
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1721 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George II)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach[1]

Events

• 11 January - Printer Isaac Carter marries Ann Lewis at Cenarth.[2]
• May - Prince William, the youngest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, is taken ill with suspected smallpox; it turns out to be a false alarm, but inoculation becomes popular among aristocratic families as well as the royal family.[1]
• 30 December - Bridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister.

Arts and literature

New books

• Ellis Pugh - Annerch ir Cymru (first Welsh book published in America)[3]
• John Prichard Prys - Difyrwch Crefyddol[4]

Births

• 17 March - Jonathan Hughes, poet (died 1805)[5]
• 30 November - John Egerton, bishop of Bangor (died 1787)
• date unknown - John Walters, lexicographer[6]
• probable - Hugh Williams, Anglican priest and writer (died 1779)

Deaths

• 8 July - Elihu Yale, American-born East India merchant and benefactor of Yale University, 72 (died in London)[7]
• 28 July - Sir Edward Williams, MP, 61[8]
• 3 September - Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, 58[9]
• 5 September - Thomas Edwards, orientalist, 69[10]

References

1. Cedric A. Mims (19 June 2000). The War Within Us: Everyman's Guide to Infection and Immunity. Elsevier. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-0-08-054267-6.
2. William Llewelyn Davies. "CARTER, ISAAC (d. 1741), printer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
3. Bob Owen. "Ellis, Rowland (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
4. Ray Looker. "Prys, John Prichard (fl. c. 1704-1721), poet, of Eglwys-ael (Llangadwaladr) in Anglesey". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
5. Welsh Biography Online
6. Crowe, Richard (May 2005). "Walters, John (bap. 1721, d. 1797)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
7. "Boston Erects Tablet in Honor of Elihu Yale". The Harvard Crimson. 25 January 1927. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
8. Hayton, D. W. (2002). "Williams, Sir Edward (1659-1721)". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690-1715. The History of Parliament Trust.
9. "GLYNNE, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (1663-1721), of Bicester and Ambrosden, Oxon., and Hawarden, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
10. Welsh Biography Online.