1730 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1730 to Wales and its people.

← 1729 1728 1727 1726 1725 1730 in Wales → 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1730 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• August - Sir John Glynne succeeds to the family baronetcy, following the deaths of his father and elder brother in successive years.[1]
• William Hogarth is commissioned by Robert Jones of Fonmon Castle to paint The Jones Family Conversation Piece.[2]
• Construction work is carried out on the north-east wing of Bodysgallen Hall.[3]

Arts and literature

New books

• Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation
• James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol[4]
• William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithieu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)[5]

Births

• date unknown
  • Samuel Levi Phillips, banker (died 1812)[6]
  • Nathaniel Thomas, writer (died c.1768)

Deaths

• 16 May - John Evans, clergyman, 50?
• 19 June - Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician, 72[7]
• August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21[8]
• 28 November - James Phillips, MP for Carmarthen, 58[9]
• December - Owen Gruffydd, poet, 86/87[10]

References

1. Jenkins, Dr. David. "Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
2. Peter Denney; Bruce Buchan; David Ellison (7 November 2018). Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850. Taylor & Francis. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-317-05250-0.
3. Country Life. Country Life, Limited. November 1978. p. 2069.
4. William Rowlands (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteeth Century. John Pryse. p. 357.
5. Britton (1815). Beauties of England and Wales. T. Maiden. p. 202.
6. Sir Bernard Burke (1969). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke's Peerage. p. 502.
7. Rigg, James McMullen (1899). "Trevor, Thomas (1658-1730)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 228–230.
8. Pritchard, T. W. (2017). The Glynnes of Hawarden. Hawarden: Gladstone's Library. ISBN 9781527219052.
9. "Phillips, James (1672-1730), of Carmarthen". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
10. Thomas Powel; Sir Isambard Owen; Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore (1888). Y Cymmrodor: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 1.