1726 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726 to Wales and its people.

← 1725 1724 1723 1722 1721 1726 in Wales → 1727 1728 1729 1730 1731
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1726 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.[1]
• 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.[2]
• 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:[3]
  • Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire).[4]
  • 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, London, 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[5] (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
• Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum[6]

Births

• 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798)
• 30 July - William Jones, 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)[7]
  • Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)
• probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)[8]

Deaths

• 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67[9]
• 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
• date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68[10]

References

1. "No. 6442". The London Gazette. 11 January 1725. p. 1.
2. Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions ... ; Illustrated by Several Engravings and Portraits. p. 426.
3. "No. 6533". The London Gazette. 26 November 1726. p. 1.
4. M. Bevan-Evans (1955). Guide to the Flintshire Record Office: Flintshire Quarter Sessions, and Other Official Records. Flintshire Record Office. p. 91.
5. Martin C. Battestin (1997). Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin. University of Delaware Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-87413-616-6.
6. Griffith John Williams (1969). Agweddau Ar Hanes Dysg Gymraeg (in Welsh). Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. p. 99.
7. Henry D. Rack, ‘Wesley, Charles (1707–1788)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 accessed 29 Sept 2013
8. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Edwards, Edward (1726?–1783?), cleric and scholar". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 May 2008.
9. "GWYNNE, Rowland (c.1658-1726), of Llanelwedd, Rad". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
10. Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth (2007). "Williams, Thomas (1658–1726), cleric and translator". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2009.