1722 in Wales

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1722 in: Great Britain; Ireland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1722 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

9 May - At the conclusion of the general election, new MPs for Welsh constituencies include Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (Pembroke Boroughs); Francis Edwardes (Haverfordwest) and Sir William Morgan for Brecon and Monmouthshire.^[1]

Arts and literature

New books

Dwysfawr Rym Buchedd Grefyddol^[2]

Births

9 May - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian (died 1795)
date unknown
- Thomas Crofts, priest, Fellow of the Royal Society, traveller and book-collector (died 1781)
- Rowland Jones, lawyer and philologist (died 1774)
probable - James Relly, Methodist minister (died 1778)

Deaths

10 February - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle)
16 November - John Vaughan, reformer, 59

References

↑ Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The Parliamentary History of Wales. p. 129. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
↑ Welsh Biography Online - Isaac Carter

1722 in Europe

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