1725 in Wales

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

Incumbents

Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley ; George Cholmondeley, 2nd 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, 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 – William Baker
Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering
Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke

Events

7 April - George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley, succeeds his late brother as Lord Lieutenant of North Wales.
4 May - Ann Thomas marries Anthony Maddocks.
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
William Lewis & Evan Pryce - ''Maddeuant i'r Edifairiol''

Births

28 March - William Morgan (of Tredegar, younger), politician
May - Llewellin Penrose, painter and writer
7 September - Francis Homfray, industrialist
date unknown - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary

Deaths

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