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]

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
3. Arthur Collins (1768). The Peerage of England ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged in every family, with memoirs, not hitherto printed. H. Woodfall. p. 235.
4. E. B. Pryde; D. E. Greenway; S. Porter; I. Roy (23 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology. Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
5. Thomas, Lawrence. "Harris, John (1680–1738), bishop of Llandaff". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
6. Arthur Philip Perceval (1839). An Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession; with an appendix on the English Orders. p. 197.
7. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
8. "Smalbroke, Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. (until 20 February)
9. West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1914. p. 280.
10. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 304.
11. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 303. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
12. Robert Watt (1824). Bibliotheca Britannica: Authors. A. Constable. p. 604.
13. Gwilym Lleyn (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. pp. 358.
14. Loftis, John. The Politics of Drama in Augustan England. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963. p. 105
15. Jenkins, Geraint H. "Evans, Evan [pseud. Ieuan Fardd; called Ieuan Brydydd Hir] (1731–1788), scholar and poet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8955. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
16. Wales. Druid Press. 1947. p. 168.
17. Geiter, Mary K. "David Lloyd". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/68177. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
18. The English Reports: House of Lords (1677-1865). W. Green. 1900. p. 1350.
19. Robert (Bob) Owen. "Ellis, Rowland (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
20. "ROBERTS, John (d.1731), of Plas Newydd, Denb". History of Parliament Online (1715-1754). Retrieved 4 October 2021.
21. "Stanley, William (STNY663W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.