1725 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1725 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 (until 18 January); George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (from 7 April)[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 – Robert Clavering (from 2 January)
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne[4]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke (from 3 February)[5]

Events

Ann Thomas, the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa"

• 7 April - George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, succeeds his late brother as Lord Lieutenant of North Wales.[6]
• 4 May - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks.[7]
• date unknown
  • Silvanus Bevan is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the recommendation of Sir Isaac Newton.
  • Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, marries Elizabeth Shepherd.
  • Matthew Maddox becomes organist of St David's Cathedral.

Arts and literature

New books

• Dafydd Lewis - Golwg ar y Byd[8]
• William Lewis & Evan Pryce - Maddeuant i'r Edifairiol[9]

Births

• 28 March - William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger), politician (died 1763)
• May - Llewellin Penrose, painter and writer (died 1791)[10]
• 7 September - Francis Homfray, industrialist (died 1798)
• date unknown - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary (died 1790)[11]

Deaths

• 18 January - Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 62[12]
• 20 July - Edward Jeffreys, 55, judge
• 25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA.[13]
• 29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.[14]
• 15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician[15]
• date unknown - Silvanus Bevan, burgess of Swansea[16]

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
3. "Baker, William (1668-1732)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
4. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
5. "Smalbroke, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
6. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
7. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Maddocks (nee Thomas), Ann (1704-1727), 'the Maid of Cefn Ydfa'". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
8. "Lewys, Dafydd (died 1727)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
9. Evan Pryce; William Lewis (1725). Maddeuant i'r edifairiol... [Dr. John Goodman]. Isaac Carter.
10. Hywel David Emanuel. "Williams (alias Penrose), Llewellin (1725-?), sailor and painter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
11. "Lort, Michael" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
12. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Cholmondeley, Hugh (d.1724)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
13. "History of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Pencander Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware". Retrieved 14 December 2012.
14. Baker, J. N. L. (1954). The Victoria History of the County of Oxford Volume III - The University of Oxford. The University of London Institute of Historical Research. p. 278.
15. Romney Sedgwick (1970). The House of Commons, 1715-1754: Members E-Y. History of Parliament Trust. p. 4.5.
16. Friends' Historical Society (1924). The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Headley Brothers. p. 52.