This article is about the particular significance of the year 1724 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 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 – John Tyler (until 8 July)From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014 Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke (from 3 February)
Events 14 September - Robert Clavering, a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, is nominated to succeed John Tyler as Bishop of Llandaff. The Shire Hall, Monmouth, is built. A charity school is built at Caerleon as the result of a bequest from Charles Williams. The title of Baron Bergavenny is inherited by William Nevill.
Arts and literature
New books William Wynne - The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins
Births 26 April (baptised) - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (died 1811) 17 May - Gabriel Jones, Welsh American lawyer, legislator, court clerk and civil servant (died 1806) 22 September - John Parry, lawyer and politician (died 1797) 4 December - Princess Louise of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1751) date unknown - George Rice, politician (died 1779)
Deaths 8 January - Mary Herbert, Marchioness of Powis, age unknown 22 March - John Evans, Bishop of Bangor and Meath, 73? 1 June - Erasmus Saunders, clergyman, 54? 4 June - Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, 41 8 July - John Tyler, Bishop of Llandaff, 84 15 December - Stephen Parry, MP for Cardigan Boroughs, 49 date unknown - Jeremiah Jones, independent tutor and biblical critic, 30/31
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