1725 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1725 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 (until 18 January); George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (from 7 April) ^{[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 – Robert Clavering (from 2 January)
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne ^[4]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke (from 3 February) ^[5]

Events

Ann Thomas, the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa"

• 7 April - George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, succeeds his late brother as Lord Lieutenant of North Wales. ^[6]
• 4 May - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks. ^[7]
• date unknown
  • Silvanus Bevan is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the recommendation of Sir Isaac Newton.
  • Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, marries Elizabeth Shepherd.
  • Matthew Maddox becomes organist of St David's Cathedral.

Arts and literature

New books

• Dafydd Lewis - Golwg ar y Byd ^[8]
• William Lewis & Evan Pryce - Maddeuant i'r Edifairiol ^[9]

Births

• 28 March - William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger), politician (died 1763)
• May - Llewellin Penrose, painter and writer (died 1791) ^[10]
• 7 September - Francis Homfray, industrialist (died 1798)
• date unknown - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary (died 1790) ^[11]

Deaths

• 18 January - Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 62 ^[12]
• 20 July - Edward Jeffreys, 55, judge
• 25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA. ^[13]
• 29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford. ^[14]
• 15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician ^[15]
• date unknown - Silvanus Bevan, burgess of Swansea ^[16]

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. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
5. "Smalbroke, Richard"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
6. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
7. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Maddocks (nee Thomas), Ann (1704-1727), 'the Maid of Cefn Ydfa'". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 22 February 2020.
8. "Lewys, Dafydd (died 1727)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
9. Evan Pryce; William Lewis (1725). Maddeuant i'r edifairiol... [Dr. John Goodman]. Isaac Carter.
10. Hywel David Emanuel. "Williams (alias Penrose), Llewellin (1725-?), sailor and painter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
11. "Lort, Michael"  . Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
12. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Cholmondeley, Hugh (d.1724)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
13. "History of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Pencander Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware" . Retrieved 14 December 2012.
14. Baker, J. N. L. (1954). The Victoria History of the County of Oxford Volume III - The University of Oxford. The University of London Institute of Historical Research. p. 278.
15. Romney Sedgwick (1970). The House of Commons, 1715-1754: Members E-Y . History of Parliament Trust. p. 4.5.
16. Friends' Historical Society (1924). The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Headley Brothers. p. 52.