1730s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1730–1739 to Wales and its people.
Events
[edit]Arts and literature
[edit]New books
[edit]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
[edit]Births
[edit]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
[edit]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