1732 in Wales

1732 in Wales

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1732 in: Great Britain • Ireland

Other events of 1732

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1732 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 23 January - Thomas Tanner becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
• 1 July - Charles Hanbury Williams marries Frances, the daughter of earl Coningsby.^[1]
• John Wynne buys the Soughton Hall estate in Northop, Flintshire.
• A mineral spring is discovered at Llanwrtyd Wells by the Rev. Theophilus Evans.
• "Madam" Bridget Bevan begins her correspondence with Griffith Jones (Llanddowror).^[2]
• Artist Edward Owen is robbed and beaten in London, receiving serious injuries that contribute to his death some years later.^[3]
• The Prince of Wales purchases Carlton House in London as his new home.^[4]
• Howell Harris becomes a schoolmaster at Llangors.
• Bishop John Wynne purchases the Northop estate in Flintshire.

Arts and literature

New books

• David Evans - A Help for parents and Heads of families … by David Evans, a Labourer in the Gospel at Tredyffren in Pennsylvania (published in Philadelphia by B. Franklin)
• Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau sydd yn yr Hanes a Brintiwyd ynghylch Pedair i Bump Mlynedd i nawr, ym mherthynas i'r Rhwygiad a wnaethpwyd yn Eglwys Henllan yny Blynyddoedd 1707, 1708, 1709
• David Rees - Adnodau or rai Lleoedd Cableddus a Sarhaus o Lyfrau … ar Fedydd Plant

Births

• 5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (died 1802)
• date unknown - Stafford Prys, bookseller and printer (died 1784)^[5]

Deaths

• 2 February - Robert Price, judge, 79
• April - Lady Pryce of Newtown Hall, second wife of Sir John Pryce , 5th baronet
• 16 December - William Bradshaw, Bishop of Bristol, 61

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