1730s in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1730–1739 to Wales and its people.

Events

Arts and literature

New books

1730

Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation
James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol
William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithjeu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)

1731

Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum
Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys

1732

David Evans - The Minister of Christ and his Flock
Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau

1734

Edmund Curll - The Life of Robert Price … one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas

Music

Births

1731

date unknown - Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (d. 1806)

1732

5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (d. 1802)

1734

3 July - Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (d. 1794)
24 October - Thomas Henry, apothecary (d. 1816)

1736

date unknown - Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician (d. 1807)

1737

13 May - Thomas Williams of Llanidan, industrialist (d. 1802)
31 August - Princess Augusta, eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1813)
date unknown - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, politician and slave-owner (d. 1808)

1738

4 June - Prince George, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1820)
date unknown - David Williams, philosopher (d. 1816)

1739

14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1767)
date unknown
- Richard Crawshay, industrialist (d. 1810)
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (d. 1810)

Deaths

1730

August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21
December - Owen Gruffydd, poet
date unknown - Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician

1731

6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer
September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader (in America)

1732

2 February - Robert Price, judge, 79

1733

22 January - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
date unknown
- John Morgan, poet
- Sir Robert Myddelton, 5th Baronet
- John Myddelton of Chirk Castle, politician

1734

2 June - Francis Gwyn, politician, 85?
14 June - John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?
13 July - Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63

1737

14 February - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, 52
20 November - Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, consort of King George II of Great Britain and former Princess of Wales (1714-1727), 54
date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete, 37

1738

27 September - Sir Thomas Stradling, 28 (in a duel)

1739

5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65