1726 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley
 * Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos


 * Bishop of Bangor – William Baker
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering
 * Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
 * Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke

Events

 * 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.
 * 26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.
 * November - John Verney is appointed a judge in Wales by prime minister Robert Walpole, after switching his political allegiance.
 * 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:
 * Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire).
 * Thomas Rowland of Cayrey (Anglesey).
 * Richard Wellington of Hay Castle (Brecknockshire).
 * Humphrey Roberts, Brynneuadd, (Caernarvonshire).
 * David Lewis of Gernos (Cardiganshire).
 * John Lloyd of Danyrallt (Carmarthenshire).
 * Edward Salusbury of Galltfaenan (Denbighshire).
 * Morgan Morgan of Llanrumney (Glamorgan).
 * Athelstan Owen of Rhiwaedog (Merionethshire/Montgomeryshire).
 * Richard Lewis of Court-y-Gallon (Monmouthshire).
 * David Lewis, of Vogart or Llandewi (Pembrokeshire).
 * Edward Burton of Vronlas (Radnorshire).
 * date unknown
 * Poet Anna Williams and her father Zachariah move into the London Charterhouse, London, while he experiments in using magnetism in pursuit of the longitude prize.
 * Road bridges built
 * Pont Fadog, Dyffryn Ardudwy.
 * Teifi bridge, Cardigan.

New books

 * John Dyer - Grongar Hill (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
 * Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum

Births

 * 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798)
 * 30 July - William Jones of Nayland, clergyman and author (died 1800)
 * June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795)
 * date unknown
 * Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)
 * Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)
 * probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)

Deaths

 * 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67
 * 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
 * date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68