1729 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1729 to Wales and its people.

← 1728 1727 1726 1725 1724 1729 in Wales → 1730 1731 1732 1733 1734
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1729 in Great Britain Scotland

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley^[1][2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton (from 26 March)^[3]
• 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 – Thomas Sherlock^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering (until 17 February);^[5] John Harris (from 19 October)^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare^[7][8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[9]

Events

• 8 January - Prince Frederick, son of King George II, is created Prince of Wales, nearly two years after his father's accession.^[10]
• 1 March - A St. David's Society is established by Welsh immigrants in Philadelphia.
• 13 March - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel, marries Barbara Villiers, daughter of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey.
• 26 March - Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton is sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, the post having been vacant since 1715. After 1729, all Lords Lieutenant were also Custos Rotulorum of Glamorgan.^[3]
• 19 October - John Harris is consecrated as Bishop of Llandaff.
• date unknown
  • Zachariah Williams is admitted as a poor brother pensioner of the Charterhouse in London.
  • Lewis Morris, eldest of the noted Morris brothers of Anglesey, becomes a customs official.

Arts and literature

New books

• Christmas Samuel - Golwg ar y Testament Newydd^[11]
• Thomas Sherlock – The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus^[12]

Births

• 6 January - Anne Penny, née Hughes, poet (died 1784)^[13]
• probable - Joseph Turner, architect (died 1807)

Deaths

• 29 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, 64^[14]
• June - Thomas Baddy, Independent minister and author^[15]
• July - Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, 35?^[14]
• 1 September - Sir Richard Steele, satirist, 57^[16]
• unknown date - Malachi Jones, Welsh clergyman in Pennsylvania^[17]

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. Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
4. E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (23 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
5. Bray, Gerald (2005). Records of Convocation. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY: Boydell Press in association with the Church of England Record Society. p. 298. ISBN 9781843832270.
6. Thomas, Lawrence. "Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
7. Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
8. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
9. "Smalbroke, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
10. l Previous Princes. Prince of Wales official website. Accessed 20 April 2014.
11. John Dyfnallt Owen. "Samuel, Christmas (1674-1764), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
12. Bietenholz, Peter (1994). Historia and fabula : myths and legends in historical thought from antiquity to the modern age. Leiden New York: Brill. p. 321. ISBN 9789004247130.
13. "Penny [née Hughes; other married name Christian], Anne (bap. 1729, d. 1780/1784)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/74054. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
14. David Jenkins. "Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flintshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
15. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Baddy, Thomas (died 1729), Independent minister and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
16. "Parish Church of St Peter, Carmarthen". BritishListedBuildings. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
17. Hodge, Charles (1839). The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Philadelphia. Philadelphia: William S. Martien. p. 196].