:1726 in Wales

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 2nd 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
• 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{{Cite DNB|wstitle=Baker, William (1668-1732)}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering{{cite book | last = Bray | first = Gerald | title = Records of Convocation | publisher = Boydell Press in association with the Church of England Record Society | location = Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Rochester, NY | year = 2005 | isbn = 9781843832270 |page=298}}
• 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 – Richard Smalbroke{{cite DNB|wstitle=Smalbroke, Richard}}

• 11 January - Thomas Lloyd of Halton becomes High Sheriff of Flintshire.{{London Gazette|issue=6442|page=1|date=11 January 1725}}
• 26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.
• November - John Verney is appointed a judge in Wales by prime minister Robert Walpole, after switching his political allegiance.{{cite book|author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions ... ; Illustrated by Several Engravings and Portraits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1gQVAAAAQAAJ|year=1886|page=426}}
• 26 November - New county sheriffs are appointed:{{London Gazette|issue=6533|page=1|date=26 November 1726}}
• Broughton Whitehall of Broughton (Flintshire).{{cite book|author=M. Bevan-Evans|title=Guide to the Flintshire Record Office: Flintshire Quarter Sessions, and Other Official Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_UIAQAAIAAJ|year=1955|publisher=Flintshire Record Office|page=91}}
• Thomas Rowland of Cayrey (Anglesey).
• Richard Wellington of Hay Castle (Brecknockshire).
• Humphrey Roberts, Brynneuadd, (Caernarvonshire).
• David Lewis of Gernos (Cardiganshire).
• John Lloyd of Danyrallt (Carmarthenshire).
• Edward Salusbury of Galltfaenan (Denbighshire).
• Morgan Morgan of Llanrumney (Glamorgan).
• Athelstan Owen of Rhiwaedog (Merionethshire/Montgomeryshire).
• Richard Lewis of Court-y-Gallon (Monmouthshire).
• David Lewis, of Vogart or Llandewi (Pembrokeshire).
• Edward Burton of Vronlas (Radnorshire).
• date unknown
• Poet Anna Williams and her father Zachariah move into the London Charterhouse, London, while he experiments in using magnetism in pursuit of the longitude prize.
• Road bridges built
• Pont Fadog, Dyffryn Ardudwy.
• Teifi bridge, Cardigan.

• John Dyer - Grongar Hill{{cite book|author=Martin C. Battestin|title=Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OyAk99WnPkC&pg=PA29|year=1997|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-616-6|pages=29}} (included in Richard Savage’s Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Several Hands)
• Moses Williams (ed.) - Repertorium Poeticum{{cite book|author=Griffith John Williams|title=Agweddau Ar Hanes Dysg Gymraeg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q1g8AAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru|language=cy|page=99}}

• 14 June - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (died 1798){{cite DWB|id=s-PENN-THO-1726|title=Pennant, Thaoms (1726-1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller|author=Ellis Davies| accessdate=6 September 2020}}
• 30 July - William Jones of Nayland, clergyman and author (died 1800){{cite DNB|wstitle=Jones, William (1726-1800)}}
• June - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (died 1795){{cite web | url=http://cylchgronaucymru.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1073091/llgc-id:1082250/llgc-id:1082641/getText| title=A rank Republican (and) a leveller: William Jones | work=Welsh History Review: Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|volume=17|number=1–4|page=367 | author=Jenkins, Geraint H. | year=1994–1995 | access-date=22 April 2011}}
• date unknown
• Sarah Gwynne (daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne), future wife of Charles Wesley (died 1822)Henry D. Rack, ‘Wesley, Charles (1707–1788)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2012 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29067, accessed 29 Sept 2013]
• Richard Myddelton, politician (died 1795){{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/myddelton-robert-1678-1733| title=MYDDELTON, Robert (1678-1733), of Chirk Castle, Denb. | publisher= History of Parliament Online| accessdate = 3 December 2018}}
• probable - Edward Edwards, clergyman and academic (died 1783){{cite DWB|id=s-EDWA-EDW-1726 |title= Edwards, Edward (1726?–1783?), cleric and scholar | last=Jenkins| first=Robert Thomas |fewer-links=yes | accessdate=1 November 2021}}

• 25 January - Rowland Gwynne, politician, 67{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/gwynne-rowland-1658-1726|title=GWYNNE, Rowland (c.1658-1726), of Llanelwedd, Rad.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=22 February 2020}}
• 3 October - Edward Stradling, politician, 27
• date unknown - Thomas Williams, clergyman and translator, 68{{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-THO-1658|title=Williams, Thomas (1658–1726), cleric and translator|authorlink=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|last=Ellis|first=Thomas Iorwerth |year=1959|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=1 November 2021}}

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