1722 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1722 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar (from 7 March)[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne (until 20 March); John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne (from 21 March)[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (from 11 September)[1]
- Bishop of Bangor – Richard Reynolds[3]
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler[4]
- Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne[5]
- Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley[6]
Events
- February - Jane Brereton's husband Thomas drowns in the River Dee at Saltney; following his death, she returns to live in Wrexham.[7]
- 9 May - At the conclusion of the general election, new MPs for Welsh constituencies include Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (Pembroke Boroughs); Francis Edwardes (Haverfordwest) and Sir William Morgan for Brecon and Monmouthshire.[8]
- June - William Wotton returns to London, where he continues to work on his Leges Wallicae, a translation of the old laws of Wales.[9]
Arts and literature
New books
- Dwysfawr Rym Buchedd Grefyddol[10]
Births
- date unknown
- Thomas Crofts, priest, Fellow of the Royal Society, traveller and book-collector (died 1781)
- Rowland Jones, lawyer and philologist (died 1774)
- probable
- James Relly, Methodist minister (died 1778)
- Hugh Williams, clergyman and writer (died 1779)[12]
Deaths
- 10 February - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle)[13]
- 16 November - John Vaughan, reformer, 59
- 16 December - Abel Morgan, Baptist minister, pastor of Pennepack Baptist Church in Philadelphia, 49[14]
References
- ^ J.C. Sainty(1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
- ^ Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63755. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Griffith Milwyn Griffiths. "Brereton, Jane (1685-1740), poetess". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The Parliamentary History of Wales. p. 129. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
- ISBN 978-0-7083-2133-1.
- ^ "Carter, Isaac (died 1741)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
- ^ Edward William Price Evans. "Edwards, Morgan (1722-1795); Baptist minister and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ Jenkins, Robert Thomas (1959). "Williams, Hugh (1722?-1779), cleric and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
- ISBN 9780904041828.
- ^ Geiter, Mary K. (2004). "Morgan, Abel (1673-1722)". Oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 4 October 2017.