1730s in Wales

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Other events of the decade

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

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

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