1732 in Wales

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

← 1731 1730 1729 1728 1727 1732 in Wales → 1733 1734 1735 1736 1737
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1732 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 – Thomas Morgan^[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 – Thomas Tanner (from 23 January)^[6][7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett (from 23 January)^[8]

Events

• 23 January - Thomas Tanner becomes Bishop of St Asaph.^[9]
• 1 July - Charles Hanbury Williams marries Frances, the daughter of earl Coningsby.^[10]
• 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).^[11]
• Artist Edward Owen is robbed and beaten in London, receiving serious injuries that contribute to his death some years later.^[12]
• Frederick, Prince of Wales, purchases Carlton House in London as his new home.^[13]
• Howell Harris becomes a schoolmaster at Llangors.
• Bishop John Wynne purchases the Northop estate in Flintshire.

Arts and literature

New books

• David Evans - A Help for parents and Heads of families … by David Evans, a Labourer in the Gospel at Tredyffren in Pennsylvania (published in Philadelphia by B. Franklin)
• Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau sydd yn yr Hanes a Brintiwyd ynghylch Pedair i Bump Mlynedd i nawr, ym mherthynas i'r Rhwygiad a wnaethpwyd yn Eglwys Henllan yny Blynyddoedd 1707, 1708, 1709^[14]
• David Rees - Adnodau or rai Lleoedd Cableddus a Sarhaus o Lyfrau … ar Fedydd Plant

Births

• 5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (died 1802)^[15]
• date unknown - Stafford Prys, bookseller and printer (died 1784)^[16]

Deaths

• April - Lady Pryce of Newtown Hall, second wife of Sir John Pryce , 5th baronet
• 4 December - William Baker, former Bishop of Bangor, 64^[17]
• 16 December - William Bradshaw, Bishop of Bristol, 61^[18]

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. Courtney, William Prideaux (1898). "Tanner, Thomas (1674-1735)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
8. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae or a calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales. University Press. 1854. p. 304.
9. Courtney, William Prideaux (1898). "Tanner, Thomas (1674-1735)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
10. "Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
11. Mary Clement. "Bevan, Bridget (1698-1732), philanthropist and educationist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
12. BBC News - "Edward Owen's 'lost' self-portrait on show in Gwynedd", 13 November 2011. Accessed 13 November 2013
13. John Summerson, Georgian London (Barrie & Jenkins, 1986 ed.)
14. Robert Thomas Jenkins; George Thomas Streather. "Maurice, Mathias (1684-1738), Independent minister and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
15. Hay, Douglas (2004). "Oxford DNB article: Kenyon, Lloyd (subscription needed)". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
16. "Prys, Stafford (1732-1784), bookseller and printer of books at Shrewsbury". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
17. "Baker, William (1668-1732)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
18.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bradshaw, William (1671-1732)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.