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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1721 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George II)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach
Events
- 11 January - Printer Isaac Carter marries Ann Lewis at Cenarth.[1]
- 30 December - Bridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister.
Arts and literature
New books
- Ellis Pugh - Annerch ir Cymru (first Welsh book published in America)[2]
Births
- 17 March - Jonathan Hughes, poet (died 1805)[3]
- 30 November - John Egerton, bishop of Bangor (died 1787)
- date unknown - John Walters, lexicographer[4]
- probable - Hugh Williams, Anglican priest and writer (died 1779)
Deaths
- 8 July - Elihu Yale, American-born East India merchant and benefactor of Yale University, 72 (died in London)
- 28 July - Sir Edward Williams, MP, 61[5]
- 3 September - Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, 58
- 5 September - Thomas Edwards, orientalist, 69[6]
References
- ↑ William Llewelyn Davies. "CARTER, ISAAC (d. 1741), printer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ↑ Dictionary of Welsh Biography
- ↑ Welsh Biography Online
- ↑ Crowe, Richard (May 2005). "Walters, John (bap. 1721, d. 1797)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
- ↑ Hayton, D. W. (2002). "Williams, Sir Edward (1659-1721)". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart. The House of Commons 1690-1715. The History of Parliament Trust.
- ↑ Welsh Biography Online.
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