:1722 in Wales

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{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}
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{{cite DNB|wstitle=Reynolds, Richard (1674-1743)}}
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{{cite book|author= Stephen Hyde Cassan|title=Lives of the Bishops of Bath|year=1829|page=162}}
Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley{{ODNBweb|id=63755|title=Ottley, Adam|first=J. D.|last=Davies}}

February - Jane Brereton's husband Thomas drowns in the River Dee at Saltney; following his death, she returns to live in Wrexham.{{cite DWB|id=s-BRER-JAN-1685|title=Brereton, Jane (1685-1740), poetess|author=Griffith Milwyn Griffiths|access-date=15 May 2018}}
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.{{cite book | first=William Retlaw | last=Williams | title=The Parliamentary History of Wales | year=1895 | pages=129 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rbYlAAAAMAAJ | accessdate=2007-10-17}}
June - William Wotton returns to London, where he continues to work on his Leges Wallicae, a translation of the old laws of Wales.{{cite book|author1=Iolo Morganwg|author2=Geraint H. Jenkins|author3=Ffion Mair Jones|author4=David Ceri Jones|title=The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg: 1797-1809|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zu1nAAAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2133-1|page=116}}

Dwysfawr Rym Buchedd Grefyddol{{Cite DWB|id=s-CART-ISA-1741|title=Carter, Isaac (died 1741)|fewer-links=yes}}

9 May - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian (died 1795){{cite DWB|id=s-EDWA-MOR-1722|title=Edwards, Morgan (1722-1795); Baptist minister and historian|author=Edward William Price Evans|fewer-links=yes|access-date=30 September 2021}}
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){{cite DWB|title=Williams, Hugh (1722?-1779), cleric and author|id=s-WILL-HUG-1722|last=Jenkins|first=Robert Thomas|authorlink=Robert Thomas Jenkins|fewer-links=yes|year=1959|accessdate=3 April 2009}}

10 February - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle){{cite book | last = Newark | first = Peter | title = The crimson book of pirates | publisher = Jupiter | location = London | year = 1978 | isbn = 9780904041828 | page=142}}
16 November - John Vaughan, reformer, 59
16 December - Abel Morgan, Baptist minister, pastor of Pennepack Baptist Church in Philadelphia, 49{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19212|title=Morgan, Abel (1673-1722)|last=Geiter|first=Mary K.|date=2004|website=Oxforddnb.com|access-date=4 October 2017}}