This article is about the particular significance of the year 1724 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[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 – John Tyler (until 8 July)[4]
- Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne[5]
- Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke (from 3 February)[6]
Events
- 14 September - Robert Clavering, a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, is nominated to succeed John Tyler as Bishop of Llandaff.
- The Shire Hall, Monmouth, is built.[7]
- A charity school is built at Caerleon as the result of a bequest from Charles Williams.[8]
- The title of Baron Bergavenny is inherited by William Nevill.
Arts and literature
New books
- William Wynne - The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins[9]
Births
- 26 April (baptised) - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (died 1811)[10]
- 17 May - Gabriel Jones, Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant (died 1806)
- 22 September - John Parry, lawyer and politician (died 1797)[11]
- 4 December - Princess Louise of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1751)
- date unknown - George Rice, politician (died 1779)[12]
Deaths
- 8 January - Mary Herbert, Marchioness of Powis, age unknown[13]
- 22 March - John Evans, Bishop of Bangor and Meath, 73?[14]
- 1 June - Erasmus Saunders, clergyman, 54?
- 4 June - Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, 41[15]
- 8 July - John Tyler, Bishop of Llandaff, 84[16]
- 15 December - Stephen Parry, MP for Cardigan Boroughs, 49[17]
- date unknown - Jeremiah Jones, independent tutor and biblical critic, 30/31[18]
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.
- ^ From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
- ^ Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Alfred John Taylor (1951). Monmouth Castle and Great Castle House, Monmouthshire. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 20.
- ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1980. p. 276.
- ^ A. H. Dodd. "WYNNE, OWEN (1652–?), civil servant". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Eddowes, Joshua (1724-1811), printer and bookseller at Shrewsbury". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "PARRY, John (1724–97), of Wernfawr, Caern". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ^ "RICE, George (?1724-79), of Newton Castle, Carm". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- ^ Hopkins, Paul. "Herbert, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13061. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Thomas, Peter D.G. "Bulkeley, Richard, 4th Visct. Bulkeley [I] (1682-1724), of Baron Hill, Anglesey". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
- ^ Handley, Stuart. "John Tyler". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67980. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "PARRY, Stephen (1675-1724), of Neuadd Trefawr, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jones, Jeremiah". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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