This article is about the particular significance of the year 1730 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 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke
Events August - Sir John Glynne succeeds to the family baronetcy, following the deaths of his father and elder brother in successive years. William Hogarth is commissioned by Robert Jones of Fonmon Castle to paint The Jones Family Conversation Piece. Construction work is carried out on the north-east wing of Bodysgallen Hall.
Arts and literature
New books English language Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation Welsh language James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithieu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)
Births date unknown Samuel Levi Phillips, banker (died 1812) Nathaniel Thomas, writer (died c.1768) probable – Thomas Nowell, academic (died 1801)
Deaths 16 May – John Evans, clergyman, 50? 19 June – Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician, 72 August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21 28 November – James Phillips, MP for Carmarthen, 58 December – Owen Gruffydd, poet, 86/87
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