Thomas Trevor is raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham.[9]
Thomas Windsor, son of the Earl of Plymouth, is created Baron Mountjoy. Windsor, the second husband of Charlotte Jeffreys, daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, would sell much of his family's Welsh property, but their Glamorgan estates would pass through the marriage of a descendant, Charlotte Hickman-Windsor, to John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute.[10]
July - On the death of its Principal Jonathan Edwards, Jesus College, Oxford, inherits his extensive library. Edwards is buried in the college chapel, whose restoration is funded by another bequest in his will.[11]
August - Jonathan Edwards is replaced as Principal of Jesus by John Wynne, who has the support of the college Visitor, the Earl of Pembroke.[12]
October - Erasmus Lewis is appointed "provost-marshall-general in the Barbadoes".[13]
Arts and literature
New books
The series of Welsh Almanacks printed by Thomas Jones is completed. (Jones dies the following year.)[14]
Robert Nelson - Cydymaith i Ddyddiau Gwylion ac Ymprydiau Eglwys Loegr (translation by Thomas Williams of A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England)[15]
^ abJ.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
^Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN9780806313146.
^Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN9781134982707.
^Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
^Guides and Handbooks, no 2. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
^Edward Geoffrey Watson Bill (1979). The Queen Anne Churches: A Catalogue of the Papers in Lambeth Palace Library of the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches in London and Westminster, 1711-1759. Mansell. p. xxiii.
