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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1722 to Wales and its people.

• 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 Tyler

• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne

• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley

• 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.

• Dwysfawr Rym Buchedd Grefyddol

• 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)

• 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