1726 in Wales

1726 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.^[1]
26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.
26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:^[2]
- 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
- John Verney is appointed a judge in Wales by prime minister Robert Walpole, after switching his political allegiance.
- Poet Anna Williams and her father Zachariah move into the London Charterhouse, London, while he experiments in using magnetism in pursuit of the longitude prize.
Road bridges built
- Pont Fadog, Dyffryn Ardudwy.
- Teifi bridge, Cardigan.

John Dyer - Grongar Hill (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum

14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798)
June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795)
date unknown
- Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)^[3]
- Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)
probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)^[4]

↑ The London Gazette: no. 6442. p. 1. 11 January 1725. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 6533. p. 1. 26 November 1726. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
↑ Henry D. Rack, ‘Wesley, Charles (1707–1788)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 accessed 29 Sept 2013
↑ Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Edwards, Edward (1726?–1783?), cleric and scholar". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
↑ Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth (2007). "Williams, Thomas (1658–1726), cleric and translator". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2009.

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