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 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729 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 – William Baker Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke
Events 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire. 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. 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed: Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire). 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 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 (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands) Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum
Births 26 March - Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795) 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798) 30 July - William Jones of Nayland, clergyman and author (died 1800) June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795) date unknown - Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)Henry D. Rack, ‘Wesley, Charles (1707–1788)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 accessed 29 Sept 2013 probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)
Deaths 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27 date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68
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