1732 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1732 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 23 January - Thomas Tanner becomes Bishop of St Asaph.*^[1]
• 1 July - Charles Hanbury Williams marries Frances, the daughter of earl Coningsby.^[2]
• John Wynne buys the Soughton Hall estate in Northop, Flintshire.
• A mineral spring is discovered at Llanwrtyd Wells by the Rev. Theophilus Evans.
• "Madam" Bridget Bevan begins her correspondence with Griffith Jones (Llanddowror).^[3]
• Artist Edward Owen is robbed and beaten in London, receiving serious injuries that contribute to his death some years later.^[4]
• The Prince of Wales purchases Carlton House in London as his new home.^[5]
• Howell Harris becomes a schoolmaster at Llangors.
• Bishop John Wynne purchases the Northop estate in Flintshire.

Arts and literature

Births

• 5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (died 1802)
• date unknown - Stafford Prys, bookseller and printer (died 1784)^[6]

Deaths

• 2 February - Robert Price, judge, 79
• April - Lady Pryce of Newtown Hall, second wife of Sir John Pryce , 5th baronet
• 16 December - William Bradshaw, Bishop of Bristol, 61

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