1720 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1720 to Wales and its people.

← 1719 1718 1717 1716 1715 1720 in Wales → 1721 1722 1723 1724 1725
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1720 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George II)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach

Events

• March - Sir William Morgan of Tredegar replaces John Morgan of Rhiwpera as Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire.[1]
• 21 August - Elisha Beadles sends an account of the progress of the Quaker movement in South Wales to London for consideration by the "Meeting for Sufferings".[2]
• date unknown
  • Charles Hanbury Williams succeeds to the estate of his godfather, and takes the surname Williams.[3]
  • Llandaff Cathedral is reported as being in a state of collapse.
  • The wrought-iron gates of St Giles' Church, Wrexham, made by the Davies brothers of Bersham, are erected.[4]

Arts and literature

New books

• Robert Roberts - A duo-glott-exposition of the Creed, the ten Commandments and the Lords Prayer, calculated for the borders of England and Wales, but particularly for the use of the parish of Chirk, whose inhabitants are partly Welsh and partly English, by R. R. A. M. Vicar of the said parish of Chirk[5]

Births

• date unknown
  • Ralph Griffiths, journalist (died 1803)
  • Roger Mostyn, canon of Windsor (died 1775)
  • Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician (died 1792)[6]

Deaths

• 7 March - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49[7]
• April/May - Robert Wynne, clergyman and poet
• 22 August - Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, politician, about 55[8]
• 29 August - Charles Williams, merchant, 87[9]
• 31 December - John Wynne, industrialist
• probable - William Evans, Presbyterian minister and writer

References

1. Octavius Morgan (1872). Some Account of the Ancient Monuments in the Priory Church, Abergavenny. Monmouthshire and Caerleon Antiquarian Association. pp. 76.
2. Thomas Mardy Rees (1959). "Elisha Beadles". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
3. Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways Earl of Ilchester; Elizabeth Langford-Brooke (1929). The Life of Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams: Poet, Wit and Diplomatist. T. Butterworth, Limited. p. 26.
4. John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
5. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "ROBERTS, ROBERT (1680-1741), cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2018.[ Welsh Biography Online]
6. Lamont-Brown, Raymond. (2009). Royal Poxes and Potions: Royal Doctors and Their Secrets. Stroud: History Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-7524-7390-1.
7. "MORGAN, John II (1671-1720), of Tredegar, Mon". History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). Retrieved 18 August 2018.
8. Hayton, D. W. (2002). "Powell, Sir Thomas, 1st Bt. (c.1665-1720)". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690-1715. The History of Parliament Trust.
9. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "WILLIAMS, CHARLES (1633-1720), benefactor of his native town, Caerleon-on-Usk". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2018.