1721 in Wales
Introduction This article is about the particular significance of the year '''1721''' to Wales and its people.
Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – 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 (from 7 March)*Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne (until 20 March); John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne (from 21 March)*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 (until 11 September);James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (from 11 September)*Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly (until 7 November); Richard Reynolds (from 3 December)*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'' (first Welsh book published in America) *John Prichard Prys – ''Difyrwch Crefyddol''
Births *17 March – Jonathan Hughes, poet (died 1805)*30 November – John Egerton, bishop of Bangor (died 1787)*''date unknown'' – John Walters, lexicographer*''probable'' – Hugh Williams, Anglican priest and writer (died 1779)
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 (died in London)*28 July – Sir Edward Williams, MP, 61*3 September – Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet, 58*5 September – Thomas Edwards, orientalist, 69
References