1721 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1721 to Wales and its people.

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 (from 7 March) ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne (until 20 March); John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne (from 21 March) ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby (until 11 September); ^{[3] [4]} James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (from 11 September) ^[1]
• Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly (until 7 November); ^[5] Richard Reynolds (from 3 December) ^[6]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler ^[7]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne ^[8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley ^[9]

Events

• 11 January – Printer Isaac Carter marries Ann Lewis at Cenarth. ^[10]
• May – Prince William, the youngest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, is taken ill with suspected smallpox; it turns out to be a false alarm, but inoculation becomes popular among aristocratic families as well as the royal family. ^[11]
• 30 December – Bridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister.

Arts and literature

New books

• Ellis Pugh – Annerch ir Cymru (first Welsh book published in America) ^[12]
• John Prichard Prys – Difyrwch Crefyddol ^[13]

Births

• 17 March – Jonathan Hughes, poet (died 1805) ^[14]
• 30 November – John Egerton, bishop of Bangor (died 1787)
• date unknown – John Walters, lexicographer ^[15]
• probable – Hugh Williams, Anglican priest and writer (died 1779)

Deaths

• 20 March – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire and former MP for Cardiganshire, 53 ^[16]
• 8 July – Elihu Yale, American-born East India merchant and benefactor of Yale University, 72 (died in London) ^[17]
• 28 July – Sir Edward Williams, MP, 61 ^[18]
• 3 September – Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, 58 ^[19]
• 5 September – Thomas Edwards, orientalist, 69 ^[20]

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. Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN   9781134982707.
4. West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1916. p. 167.
5. "Hoadly, Benjamin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13375.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
6. "Reynolds, Richard (1674–1743)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
7. 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
8. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
9. Davies, J. D. "Ottley, Adam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63755.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
10. William Llewelyn Davies. "CARTER, ISAAC (d. 1741), printer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 21 May 2018.
11. Cedric A. Mims (19 June 2000). The War Within Us: Everyman's Guide to Infection and Immunity. Elsevier. pp. 44–45. ISBN   978-0-08-054267-6.
12. Bob Owen. "Ellis, Rowland (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
13. Ray Looker. "Prys, John Prichard (fl. c. 1704-1721), poet, of Eglwys-ael (Llangadwaladr) in Anglesey". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
14. "Hughes, Jonathan (1721 - 1805)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
15. Crowe, Richard (May 2005). "Walters, John (bap. 1721, d. 1797)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press . Retrieved 12 February 2009.
16. "Vaughan, John I (1667-1721), of Trawscoed, Llanafan, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
17. "Boston Erects Tablet in Honor of Elihu Yale". The Harvard Crimson . 25 January 1927. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
18. Hayton, D. W. (2002). "Williams, Sir Edward (1659-1721)". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690-1715. The History of Parliament Trust.
19. "GLYNNE, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (1663-1721), of Bicester and Ambrosden, Oxon., and Hawarden, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
20. "Edwards, Thomas (1652 - 1721)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.