This article is about the particular significance of the year 1722 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 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (from 11 September)
Bishop of Bangor – Richard Reynolds Bishop of Llandaff – John TylerFrom: '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 – Adam Ottley
Events February - Jane Brereton's husband Thomas drowns in the River Dee at Saltney; following his death, she returns to live in Wrexham. 9 May - At the conclusion of the general election, new MPs for Welsh constituencies include Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet (Pembroke Boroughs); Francis Edwardes (Haverfordwest) and Sir William Morgan for Brecon and Monmouthshire. June - William Wotton returns to London, where he continues to work on his Leges Wallicae, a translation of the old laws of Wales.
Arts and literature
New books Dwysfawr Rym Buchedd Grefyddol
Births 9 May - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian (died 1795) date unknown Thomas Crofts, priest, Fellow of the Royal Society, traveller and book-collector (died 1781) Rowland Jones, lawyer and philologist (died 1774) probable James Relly, Methodist minister (died 1778) Hugh Williams, clergyman and writer (died 1779)
Deaths 10 February - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle) 16 November - John Vaughan, reformer, 59 16 December - Abel Morgan, Baptist minister, pastor of Pennepack Baptist Church in Philadelphia, 49
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