1730 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1730 to Wales and its people.
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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
- Jenkins, Dr. David. "Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
- 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.
- Country Life. Country Life, Limited. November 1978. p. 2069.
- 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.
- Britton (1815). Beauties of England and Wales. T. Maiden. p. 202.
- Sir Bernard Burke (1969). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke's Peerage. p. 502.
- Rigg, James McMullen (1899). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 228–230.
- Pritchard, T. W. (2017). The Glynnes of Hawarden. Hawarden: Gladstone's Library. ISBN 9781527219052.
- "Phillips, James (1672-1730), of Carmarthen". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- Thomas Powel; Sir Isambard Owen; Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore (1888). Y Cymmrodor: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 1.
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