1721 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1721 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne ; John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby ;James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly ; Richard Reynolds
Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley

Events

11 January – Printer Isaac Carter marries Ann Lewis at Cenarth.
May – Prince William, the youngest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, is taken ill with suspected smallpox; it turns out to be a false alarm, but inoculation becomes popular among aristocratic families as well as the royal family.
30 December – Bridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister.

Arts and literature

New books

Ellis Pugh – Annerch ir Cymru
John Prichard Prys – ''Difyrwch Crefyddol''

Births

17 March – Jonathan Hughes, poet
30 November – John Egerton, bishop of Bangor
date unknown – John Walters, lexicographer
probable – Hugh Williams, Anglican priest and writer

Deaths

20 March – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire and former MP for Cardiganshire, 53
8 July – Elihu Yale, American-born East India merchant and benefactor of Yale University, 72
28 July – Sir Edward Williams, MP, 61
3 September – Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, 58
5 September – Thomas Edwards, orientalist, 69