1731 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1731 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar; Thomas Morgan
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 – Thomas Sherlock
Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris
Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare
Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke Elias Sydall

Events

April - Trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off by Spanish coast guards in Cuba leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.
September 22 - Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) writes to the SPCK proposing that a Welsh school be set up at Llanddowror. This marks the beginning of the circulating schools movement.

Arts and literature

New books

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

Other

23 April - Henry Fielding's latest work, The Welsh Opera, is performed in Haymarket. It includes personal attacks on Frederick, Prince of Wales.

Births

20 May - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), poet
date unknown
*Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer
*Aaron Williams, composer

Deaths

January - Thomas Jones of Lincoln's Inn, founder of the Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient Britons
6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer, 74
24 April - William Morgan of Tredegar (the elder), Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 31
September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader, 81
4 September - John Roberts, MP for Denbigh, 59?
9 October - William Stanley, Dean of St Asaph, 85