1731 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1731 to Wales and its people.

← 1730 1729 1728 1727 1726 1731 in Wales → 1732 1733 1734 1735 1736
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1731 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(until 24 April); Thomas Morgan (from 18 June)^[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 (until 25 November)^[6][7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[8]Elias Sydall (11 April to 2 November)^[9][10]

Events

• April - Trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off by Spanish coast guards in Cuba leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.^[11]
• September 22 - Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) writes to the SPCK proposing that a Welsh school be set up at Llanddowror. This marks the beginning of the circulating schools movement.

Arts and literature

New books

• Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum^[12]
• Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys^[13]

Other

• 23 April - Henry Fielding's latest work, The Welsh Opera, is performed in Haymarket. It includes personal attacks on Frederick, Prince of Wales.^[14]

Births

• 20 May - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), poet (died 1788)^[15]
• date unknown
  • Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (died 1806)
  • Aaron Williams, composer (died 1776)

Deaths

• January - Thomas Jones of Lincoln's Inn, founder of the Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient Britons^[16]
• 6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer, 74^[17]
• 24 April - William Morgan of Tredegar (the elder), Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 31^[18]
• September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader, 81 (in America)^[19]
• 4 September - John Roberts, MP for Denbigh, 59?^[20]
• 9 October - William Stanley, Dean of St Asaph, 85^[21]