1725 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1725 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley (until 18 January); George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley (from 7 April)^{[1] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
• 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 – William Baker^[3]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering (from 2 January)
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne^[4]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke (from 3 February)^[5]

Events

• 7 April - George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, succeeds his late brother as Lord Lieutenant of North Wales.^[6]
• 4 May - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks.^[7]
• date unknown
  • Silvanus Bevan is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the recommendation of Sir Isaac Newton.
  • Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, marries Elizabeth Shepherd.
  • Matthew Maddox becomes organist of St David's Cathedral.

Arts and literature

New books

• Dafydd Lewis - Golwg ar y Byd^[8]
• William Lewis & Evan Pryce - Maddeuant i'r Edifairiol^[9]

Births

• 28 March - William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger), politician (died 1763)
• May - Llewellin Penrose, painter and writer (died 1791)^[10]
• 7 September - Francis Homfray, industrialist (died 1798)
• date unknown - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary (died 1790)^[11]

Deaths

• 18 January - Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 62^[12]
• 20 July - Edward Jeffreys, 55, judge
• 25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA.^[13]
• 29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.^[14]
• 15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician^[15]
• date unknown - Silvanus Bevan, burgess of Swansea^[16]

Notes and References

1. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
2. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
3. Baker, William (1668-1732).
4. Book: Stephen Hyde Cassan. Lives of the Bishops of Bath. 1829. 162.
5. Smalbroke, Richard.
6. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
7. s-MADD-ANN-1704. Maddocks (nee Thomas), Ann (1704-1727), ‘the Maid of Cefn Ydfa’. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 22 February 2020.
8. s-LEWY-DAF-1727. Lewys, Dafydd (died 1727). yes. 1 November 2021.
9. Book: Evan Pryce. William Lewis. Maddeuant i'r edifairiol... [Dr. John Goodman]... Isaac Carter. 1725.
10. s-WILL-LLE-1725. Williams (alias Penrose), Llewellin (1725-?), sailor and painter. Hywel David Emanuel. yes. 22 February 2020.
11. Lort, Michael.
12. Cholmondeley, Hugh (d.1724). 10.
13. Web site: History of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Pencander Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. 2012-12-14.
14. Book: Baker, J. N. L. . J. N. L. Baker

    . The Victoria History of the County of Oxford Volume III - The University of Oxford . The University of London Institute of Historical Research. 1954. J. N. L. Baker . 278.

15. Book: Romney Sedgwick. The House of Commons, 1715-1754: Members E-Y. registration. 1970. History of Parliament Trust. 4.5.
16. Book: Friends' Historical Society. The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. 1924. Headley Brothers. 52.