This article is about the particular significance of the year 1731 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – 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(until 24 April); Thomas Morgan (from 18 June) 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 (until 25 November) Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke (until 20 February)Elias Sydall (11 April to 2 November)
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.Loftis, John. The Politics of Drama in Augustan England. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963. p. 105
Births 20 May - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), poet (died 1788) date unknown Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (died 1806) Aaron Williams, composer (died 1776)
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 (in America) 4 September - John Roberts, MP for Denbigh, 59? 9 October - William Stanley, Dean of St Asaph, 85
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