1720s in Wales
# 1720s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1720 - 1729 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Prince of Wales
   * George (until 1727) (became George II)
   * Frederick (from January 8, 1729)
* Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach (until 1727)

## Events

1720

* Charles Hanbury Williams succeeds to the estate of his godfather, and takes the surname Williams.

1721

* December 30 - Bridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister.

1722

1723

1724

* A charity school is built at Caerleon-on-Usk as the result of a bequest from Charles Williams.

1725

* 4 May - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks.
* Silvanus Bevan is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the recommendation of Sir Isaac Newton.

1726

* 26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.

1727

* The Piercefield estate is sold for £3,366, 5.6d to Thomas Rous of Wotton-under-Edge.

1728

1729

* 8 January - Prince Frederick, son of King George II, is created Prince of Wales, nearly two years after his father's accession.
* 1 March - A St. David's Society is established by Welsh immigrants in Philadelphia.
* 19 October - John Harris becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
* Zachariah Williams is admitted as a poor brother pensioner of the Charterhouse in London.

## Arts and literature

### New books

1721

* Ellis Pugh - Annerch ir Cymru (first Welsh book published in America)

1723

* Henry Rowlands - Mona Antiqua Restaurata
* Christmas Samuel - Llun Agrippa

1724

* Owen Wynne - The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins

1725

* Dafydd Lewys - Golwg ar y Byd

1729

* Christmas Samuel - Golwg ar y Testament Newydd

## Births

1720

* July 22 - Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1769)

1722

* May 9 - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian (d. 1795)

1723

* February 23 - Richard Price, philosopher (d. 1791)
* March 5 - Princess Mary of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1772)

1724

* April - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (d. 1811)
* December 4 - Princess Louise of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1751)

1725

* May - Llewellin Penrose, painter
* September 7 - Francis Homfray, industrialist (d. 1798)

1726

* June 14 - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (d. 1798)
* William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (d. 1795)

## Deaths

1720

* March 7 - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49
* April/May - Robert Wynne, clergyman and poet
* August 29 - Charles Williams, merchant, 87
* December 31 - John Wynne, industrialist

1721

* July 8 - Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale University, 72
* date unknown - Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet

1722

* February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle)
* November 16 - John Vaughan, reformer, 59

1723

* December 28 - Sir Charles Lloyd, 1st Baronet, of Milfield, politician, 61

1724

* March 22 - John Evans, Bishop of Bangor and Meath, 73?
* June 1 - Erasmus Saunders, clergyman, 54?
* date unknown - Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley

1725

* December 15 - Francis Edwardes, politician

1729

* April 29 - Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, 64
* September - Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, 35?
* September 1 - Sir Richard Steele, satirist, 57
