1724 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1724 to Wales and its people.

← 1723 1722 1721 1720 1719 1724 in Wales → 1725 1726 1727 1728 1729
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1724 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley^[1][2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos^[1]

• Bishop of Bangor – William Baker^[3]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler (until 8 July)^[4]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne^[5]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke (from 3 February)^[6]

Events

• 14 September - Robert Clavering, a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, is nominated to succeed John Tyler as Bishop of Llandaff.
• The Shire Hall, Monmouth, is built.^[7]
• A charity school is built at Caerleon as the result of a bequest from Charles Williams.^[8]
• The title of Baron Bergavenny is inherited by William Nevill.

Arts and literature

New books

• William Wynne - The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins^[9]

Births

• 26 April (baptised) - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (died 1811)^[10]
• 17 May - Gabriel Jones, Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant (died 1806)
• 22 September - John Parry, lawyer and politician (died 1797)^[11]
• 4 December - Princess Louise of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1751)
• date unknown - George Rice, politician (died 1779)^[12]

Deaths

• 8 January - Mary Herbert, Marchioness of Powis, age unknown^[13]
• 22 March - John Evans, Bishop of Bangor and Meath, 73?^[14]
• 1 June - Erasmus Saunders, clergyman, 54?
• 4 June - Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, 41^[15]
• 8 July - John Tyler, Bishop of Llandaff, 84^[16]
• 15 December - Stephen Parry, MP for Cardigan Boroughs, 49^[17]
• date unknown - Jeremiah Jones, independent tutor and biblical critic, 30/31^[18]

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
3. "Baker, William (1668-1732)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
4. From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
5. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
6. "Smalbroke, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
7. Alfred John Taylor (1951). Monmouth Castle and Great Castle House, Monmouthshire. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 20.
8. Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1980. p. 276.
9. A. H. Dodd. "WYNNE, OWEN (1652–?), civil servant". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
10. William Llewelyn Davies. "Eddowes, Joshua (1724-1811), printer and bookseller at Shrewsbury". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
11. "PARRY, John (1724–97), of Wernfawr, Caern". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
12. "RICE, George (?1724-79), of Newton Castle, Carm". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
13. Hopkins, Paul. "Herbert, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13061. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
14. "Evans, John (d.1724)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
15. Thomas, Peter D.G. "Bulkeley, Richard, 4th Visct. Bulkeley [I] (1682-1724), of Baron Hill, Anglesey". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
16. Handley, Stuart. "John Tyler". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67980. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
17. "PARRY, Stephen (1675-1724), of Neuadd Trefawr, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
18.   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jones, Jeremiah". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.