1722 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1722 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 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
- Bishop of Bangor – Richard Reynolds
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
- Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
- Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley
Events
- February - Jane Brereton's husband Thomas drowns in the River Dee at Saltney; following his death, she returns to live in Wrexham.
- 9 May - At the conclusion of the general election, new MPs for Welsh constituencies include Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet ; Francis Edwardes and Sir William Morgan for Brecon and Monmouthshire.
- June - William Wotton returns to London, where he continues to work on his Leges Wallicae, a translation of the old laws of Wales.
Arts and literature
New books
- ''Dwysfawr Rym Buchedd Grefyddol''
Births
- 9 May - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian
- date unknown
- *Thomas Crofts, priest, Fellow of the Royal Society, traveller and book-collector
- *Rowland Jones, lawyer and philologist
- probable
- *James Relly, Methodist minister
- *Hugh Williams, clergyman and writer
Deaths
- 10 February - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate, 39
- 16 November - John Vaughan, reformer, 59
- 16 December - Abel Morgan, Baptist minister, pastor of Pennepack Baptist Church in Philadelphia, 49