1721 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1721 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents[edit]
- 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 – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby (until 11 September);[3][4]James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (from 11 September)[1]
- Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly (until 7 November);[5] Richard Reynolds (from 3 December)[6]
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler[7]
- Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne[8]
- Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley[9]
Events[edit]
- 11 January – Printer Isaac Carter marries Ann Lewis at Cenarth.[10]
- May – Prince William, the youngest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, is taken ill with suspected smallpox; it turns out to be a false alarm, but inoculation becomes popular among aristocratic families as well as the royal family.[11]
- 30 December – Bridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister.
Arts and literature[edit]
New books[edit]
- Ellis Pugh – Annerch ir Cymru (first Welsh book published in America)[12]
- John Prichard Prys – Difyrwch Crefyddol[13]
Births[edit]
- 17 March – Jonathan Hughes, poet (died 1805)[14]
- 30 November – John Egerton, bishop of Bangor (died 1787)
- date unknown – John Walters, lexicographer[15]
- probable – Hugh Williams, Anglican priest and writer (died 1779)
Deaths[edit]
- 20 March – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire and former MP for Cardiganshire, 53[16]
- 8 July – Elihu Yale, American-born East India merchant and benefactor of Yale University, 72 (died in London)[17]
- 28 July – Sir Edward Williams, MP, 61[18]
- 3 September – Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, 58[19]
- 5 September – Thomas Edwards, orientalist, 69[20]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
- ^ West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1916. p. 167.
- ^ "Hoadly, Benjamin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13375. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ . 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.
- ^ Davies, J. D. "Ottley, Adam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63755. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "CARTER, ISAAC (d. 1741), printer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ Cedric A. Mims (19 June 2000). The War Within Us: Everyman's Guide to Infection and Immunity. Elsevier. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-0-08-054267-6.
- ^ Bob Owen. "Ellis, Rowland (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ Ray Looker. "Prys, John Prichard (fl. c. 1704-1721), poet, of Eglwys-ael (Llangadwaladr) in Anglesey". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ "Hughes, Jonathan (1721 - 1805)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
- ^ Crowe, Richard (May 2005). "Walters, John (bap. 1721, d. 1797)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ^ "Vaughan, John I (1667-1721), of Trawscoed, Llanafan, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Boston Erects Tablet in Honor of Elihu Yale". The Harvard Crimson. 25 January 1927. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
- ^ Hayton, D. W. (2002). "Williams, Sir Edward (1659-1721)". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690-1715. The History of Parliament Trust.
- ^ "GLYNNE, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (1663-1721), of Bicester and Ambrosden, Oxon., and Hawarden, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Edwards, Thomas (1652 - 1721)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.