1729 in Wales

1729 in Wales

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1729 in: Great Britain • Ireland

Other events of 1729

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1730 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick, Prince of Wales (from 8 January)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 8 January - Prince Frederick, son of King George II, is created Prince of Wales, nearly two years after his father's accession.^[1]
• 1 March - A St. David's Society is established by Welsh immigrants in Philadelphia.
• 13 March - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel, marries Barbara Villiers, daughter of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey.
• 19 October - John Harris becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
• date unknown
  • Zachariah Williams is admitted as a poor brother pensioner of the Charterhouse in London.
  • Lewis Morris, eldest of the noted Morris brothers of Anglesey, becomes a customs official.

Arts and literature

New books

• Christmas Samuel - Golwg ar y Testament Newydd^[2]

Births

• probable - Joseph Turner, architect (died 1807)

Deaths

• 29 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, 64
• June - Thomas Baddy, Independent minister and author^[3]
• September - Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, 35?
• 1 September - Sir Richard Steele, satirist, 57

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