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Шаблон:Use Welsh English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726 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[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne[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[1]
- Bishop of Bangor – William Baker[3]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering[4]
- Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne[5]
- Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke[6]
Events
- 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.[7]
- 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.[8]
- 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:[9]
- Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire).[10]
- 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[11] (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
- Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum[12]
Births
- 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798)[13]
- 30 July - William Jones of Nayland, clergyman and author (died 1800)[14]
- June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795)[15]
- date unknown
- Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)[16]
- Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)[17]
- probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)[18]
Deaths
- 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67[19]
- 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
- date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68[20]
References
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- ↑ Henry D. Rack, ‘Wesley, Charles (1707–1788)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 accessed 29 Sept 2013
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