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List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1721 to
Wales and
its people .
Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey ,
Caernarvonshire ,
Denbighshire ,
Flintshire ,
Merionethshire ,
Montgomeryshire ) –
Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
[1]
[2]
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir
William Morgan of Tredegar (from 7 March)
[1]
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire –
John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne (until 20 March);
John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne (from 21 March)
[1]
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire –
Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
[1]
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire –
Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby (until 11 September);
[3]
[4]
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (from 11 September)
[1]
Bishop of Bangor –
Benjamin Hoadly (until 7 November);
[5]
Richard Reynolds (from 3 December)
[6]
Bishop of Llandaff –
John Tyler
[7]
Bishop of St Asaph –
John Wynne
[8]
Bishop of St Davids –
Adam Ottley
[9]
Ellis Pugh – Annerch ir Cymru (first Welsh book published in America)
[12]
John Prichard Prys – Difyrwch Crefyddol
[13]
20 March –
John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne , Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire and former MP for Cardiganshire, 53
[16]
8 July –
Elihu Yale , American-born East India merchant and benefactor of Yale University, 72 (died in London)
[17]
28 July – Sir
Edward Williams , MP, 61
[18]
3 September –
Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet , 58
[19]
5 September –
Thomas Edwards , orientalist, 69
[20]
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