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
- 4 May - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks.[6]
- 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[7]
Births
- 28 March - William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger), politician (died 1763)
- May - Llewellin Penrose, painter and writer (died 1791)[8]
- 7 September - Francis Homfray, industrialist (died 1798)
- date unknown - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary (died 1790)[9]
Deaths
- 18 January - Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 62[10]
- 20 July - Edward Jeffreys, 55, judge
- 25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA.[11]
- 29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.[12]
- 15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician[13]
- date unknown - Silvanus Bevan, burgess of Swansea[14]
References
- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 21 April 2014
- ^ Hywel David Emanuel. "Williams (alias Penrose), Llewellin (1725-?), sailor and painter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "History of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Pencander Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware". Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Romney Sedgwick (1970). The House of Commons, 1715-1754: Members E-Y. History of Parliament Trust. p. 4.5.
- ^ Friends' Historical Society (1924). The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Headley Brothers. p. 52.