1731 in Wales

1731 in Wales

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1731 in: Great Britain • Ireland

Other events of 1731

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1731 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick, Prince of Wales
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• April - Trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off by Spanish coast guards in Cuba leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.^[1]
• September 22 - Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) writes to the SPCK proposing that a Welsh school be set up at Llanddowror. This marks the beginning of the circulating schools movement.

Arts and literature

New books

• Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum
• Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys

Other

• 23 April - Henry Fielding's latest work, The Welsh Opera, is performed in Haymarket. It includes personal attacks on the Prince of Wales.^[2]

Births

• 20 May - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), poet (died 1788)
• date unknown
  • Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (died 1806)
  • Aaron Williams, composer (died 1776)

Deaths

• 6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer, 74
• 24 April - William Morgan of Tredegar (the elder), 31
• September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader, 81 (in America)
• 4 September - John Roberts, MP for Denbigh, 59?
• 9 October - William Stanley, Dean of St Asaph, 84
• date unknown - Thomas Jones of Lincoln's Inn, founder of the Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient Britons

References