1730s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1730 - 1739 to Wales and its people.

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Other events of the decade

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick
• Princess of Wales - Augusta (from 17 April 1736)

Events

1730

1731

1732

1733

1734

1735

1736

1737

1738

1739

Arts and literature

New books

1730

• Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation
• James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol
• William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithjeu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)

1731

• Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum
• Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys

1732

• David Evans - The Minister of Christ and his Flock
• Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau

1734

• Edmund Curll - The Life of Robert Price … one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas

Music

Births

1731

• date unknown - Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (d. 1806)

1732

• 5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (d. 1802)

1734

• 3 July - Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (d. 1794)
• 24 October - Thomas Henry, apothecary (d. 1816)

1736

• date unknown - Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician (d. 1807)

1737

• 13 May - Thomas Williams of Llanidan, industrialist (d. 1802)
• 31 August - Princess Augusta, eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1813)
• date unknown - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, politician and slave-owner (d. 1808)

1738

• 4 June - Prince George, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1820)
• date unknown - David Williams, philosopher (d. 1816)

1739

• 14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1767)
• date unknown
  • Richard Crawshay, industrialist (d. 1810)
  • Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (d. 1810)

Deaths

1730

• August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21
• December - Owen Gruffydd, poet
• date unknown - Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician

1731

• 6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer
• September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader (in America)

1732

• 2 February - Robert Price, judge, 79

1733

• 22 January - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
• date unknown
  • John Morgan, poet
  • Sir Robert Myddelton, 5th Baronet
  • John Myddelton of Chirk Castle, politician

1734

• 2 June - Francis Gwyn, politician, 85?
• 14 June - John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?
• 13 July - Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63

1737

• 14 February - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, 52
• 20 November - Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, consort of King George II of Great Britain and former Princess of Wales (1714-1727), 54
• date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete, 37

1738

• 27 September - Sir Thomas Stradling, 28 (in a duel)

1739

• 5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65

References