1730 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1730 to Wales and its people.

← 1729 1728 1727 1726 1725 1730 in Wales → 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1730 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

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^[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 – John Harris^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare^[6][7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[8]

Events

• August - Sir John Glynne succeeds to the family baronetcy, following the deaths of his father and elder brother in successive years.^[9]
• William Hogarth is commissioned by Robert Jones of Fonmon Castle to paint The Jones Family Conversation Piece.^[10]
• Construction work is carried out on the north-east wing of Bodysgallen Hall.^[11]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation^[12]

Welsh language

• James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol^[13]
• William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithieu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)^[14]

Births

• date unknown
  • Samuel Levi Phillips [cy], banker (died 1812)^[15]
  • Nathaniel Thomas, writer (died c.1768)
• probable – Thomas Nowell, academic (died 1801)^[16]

Deaths

• 16 May – John Evans, clergyman, 50?^[17]
• 19 June – Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician, 72^[18]
• August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21^[19]
• 28 November – James Phillips, MP for Carmarthen, 58^[20]
• December – Owen Gruffydd, poet, 86/87^[21]

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. Thomas, Lawrence. "Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
6. Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
7. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
8. "Smalbroke, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
9. Jenkins, Dr. David. "Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
10. Peter Denney; Bruce Buchan; David Ellison (7 November 2018). Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850. Taylor & Francis. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-317-05250-0.
11. Country Life. Country Life, Limited. November 1978. p. 2069.
12. Robert Thomas Jenkins; Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers; Evan David Jones. "Harris, Joseph (1704-1764), Assay-master at the Mint". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
13. William Rowlands (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century. John Pryse. p. 357.
14. Britton (1815). Beauties of England and Wales. T. Maiden. p. 202.
15. Sir Bernard Burke (1969). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke's Peerage. p. 502.
16. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Nowell, Thomas (1730?-1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2024.
17. Arthur Herbert Dodd. "Evans, John (c.1680-1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
18. Rigg, James McMullen (1899). "Trevor, Thomas (1658-1730)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 228–230.
19. Pritchard, T. W. (2017). The Glynnes of Hawarden. Hawarden: Gladstone's Library. ISBN 9781527219052.
20. "Phillips, James (1672-1730), of Carmarthen". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
21. Thomas Powel; Sir Isambard Owen; Egerton Grenville Bagot Phillimore (1888). Y Cymmrodor: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 1.