1725 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1725 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 4 May - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks.
- date unknown
- Silvanus Bevan is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the recommendation of Sir Isaac Newton.
- Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, marries Elizabeth Shepherd.
- Matthew Maddox becomes organist of St David's Cathedral.
Arts and literature
New books
- Dafydd Lewis - Golwg ar y Byd[1]
Births
- 28 March - William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger), politician (died 1763)
- May - Llewellin Penrose, painter and writer (died 1791)[2]
- 7 September - Francis Homfray, industrialist (died 1798)
- date unknown - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary (died 1790)
Deaths
- 20 July - Edward Jeffreys, 55, judge
- 25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA.[3]
- 29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.[4]
- 15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician
References
- ↑ Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 21 April 2014
- ↑ Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 21 April 2014
- ↑ "History of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Pencander Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware". Retrieved 2012-12-14.
- ↑ Baker, J. N. L. (1954). The Victoria History of the County of Oxford Volume III - The University of Oxford. The University of London Institute of Historical Research. p. 278.
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