1730 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1730 to Wales and its people.

← 1729 1728 1727 1726 1725 1730 in Wales → 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1730 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley^[1][2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton^[3]
• 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 – Thomas Sherlock^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare^[6][7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[8]

Events

• August - Sir John Glynne succeeds to the family baronetcy, following the deaths of his father and elder brother in successive years.^[9]
• William Hogarth is commissioned by Robert Jones of Fonmon Castle to paint The Jones Family Conversation Piece.^[10]
• Construction work is carried out on the north-east wing of Bodysgallen Hall.^[11]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation^[12]

Welsh language

• James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol^[13]
• William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithieu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)^[14]

Births

• date unknown
  • Samuel Levi Phillips, banker (died 1812)^[15]
  • Nathaniel Thomas, writer (died c.1768)
• probable – Thomas Nowell, academic (died 1801)^[16]

Deaths

• 16 May – John Evans, clergyman, 50?^[17]
• 19 June – Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician, 72^[18]
• August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21^[19]
• 28 November – James Phillips, MP for Carmarthen, 58^[20]
• December – Owen Gruffydd, poet, 86/87^[21]