1730s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1730 - 1739 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Frederick, Prince of Wales
- Princess of Wales - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (from 17 April 1736)
Events
Arts and literature
New books
1730
- Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation
- James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol
- William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithjeu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)
1731
- Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum
- Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys
1732
- David Evans - The Minister of Christ and his Flock
- Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau
1734
- Edmund Curll - The Life of Robert Price … one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas
Music
Births
1731
- date unknown - Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (d. 1806)
1732
- October 5 - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (d. 1802)
1734
- July 3 - Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (d. 1794)
- October 24 - Thomas Henry, apothecary (d. 1816)
1736
- date unknown - Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician (d. 1807)
1737
- May 13 - Thomas Williams of Llanidan, industrialist (d. 1802)
- August 31 - Princess Augusta, eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1813)
- date unknown - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, politician and slave-owner (d. 1808)
1738
- June 4 - Prince George, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1820)
- date unknown - David Williams, philosopher (d. 1816)
1739
- March 14 - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1767)
- date unknown
- Richard Crawshay, industrialist (d. 1810)
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (d. 1810)
Deaths
1730
- August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21
- December - Owen Gruffydd, poet
- date unknown - Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician
1731
- April 6 - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer
- September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader (in America)
1732
- February 2 - Robert Price, judge, 79
1733
- January 22 - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
- date unknown
- John Morgan, poet
- Sir Robert Myddelton, 5th Baronet
- John Myddelton of Chirk Castle, politician
1734
- June 2 - Francis Gwyn, politician, 85?
- June 14 - John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?
- July 13 - Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63
1737
- February 14 - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, 52
- November 20 - Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, consort of King George II of Great Britain and former Princess of Wales (1714-1727), 54
- date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete, 37
1738
- September 27 - Sir Thomas Stradling, 28 (in a duel)
1739