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1726 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1726toWales and its people.

• 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 – 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^[4]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne^[5]
• Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke^[6]

• 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.^[7]
• 26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.
• November - John Verney is appointed a judge in Wales by prime minister Robert Walpole, after switching his political allegiance.^[8]
• 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:^[9]
  • Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire).^[10]
  • Thomas Rowland of Cayrey (Anglesey).
  • Richard Wellington of Hay Castle (Brecknockshire).
  • Humphrey Roberts, Brynneuadd, (Caernarvonshire).
  • David Lewis of Gernos (Cardiganshire).
  • John Lloyd of Danyrallt (Carmarthenshire).
  • Edward Salusbury of Galltfaenan (Denbighshire).
  • Morgan Morgan of Llanrumney (Glamorgan).
  • Athelstan Owen of Rhiwaedog (Merionethshire/Montgomeryshire).
  • Richard Lewis of Court-y-Gallon (Monmouthshire).
  • David Lewis, of Vogart or Llandewi (Pembrokeshire).
  • Edward Burton of Vronlas (Radnorshire).
• date unknown
  • Poet Anna Williams and her father Zachariah move into the London Charterhouse, London, while he experiments in using magnetism in pursuit of the longitude prize.
• Road bridges built
  • Pont Fadog, Dyffryn Ardudwy.
  • Teifi bridge, Cardigan.

• John Dyer - Grongar Hill^[11] (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
• Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum^[12]

• 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798)^[13]
• 30 July - William Jones of Nayland, clergyman and author (died 1800)^[14]
• June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795)^[15]
• date unknown
  • Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)^[16]
  • Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795)^[17]
• probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783)^[18]

• 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67^[19]
• 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
• date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68^[20]