1730 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1730 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Frederick
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- August - Sir John Glynne succeeds to the family baronetcy, following the deaths of his father and elder brother in successive years.
- William Hogarth is commissioned by Robert Jones of Fonmon Castle to paint The Jones Family Conversation Piece.
- Construction of the north-east wing of Bodysgallen Hall.
Arts and literature
New books
- 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)
Births
- date unknown
- Samuel Levi Phillips, banker (died 1812)
- Nathaniel Thomas, writer (died c.1768)
Deaths
- 16 May - John Evans, clergyman, 50?
- 19 June - Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician, 72
- August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21
- December - Owen Gruffydd, poet
References
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