1709 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1709 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
[edit]- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke[1][3]
- Bishop of Bangor – John Evans[4]
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler[5]
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Fleetwood[6]
- Bishop of St Davids – George Bull[7]
Events
[edit]- 19 July - David Parry is appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in succession to Edward Lhuyd.[8]
- 1 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.[9]
- date unknown
- Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) takes charge of a school at Laugharne.[10]
- The "Company of Mine Adventures", headed by Humphrey Mackworth, goes bankrupt.[11]
- Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.)[12]
Arts and literature
[edit]New books
[edit]- Edward Holdsworth - The mouse-trap; or, The Welsh engagement with the mice (a mock-heroic satire on the Welsh people, published anonymously)[13]
Births
[edit]- March - William Wynn, clergyman and poet (died 1760)[14]
- 11 June - Philip David, Independent minister (died 1787)
- date unknown
- Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (died 1730)[15]
- Joseph Hoare, academic (died 1802)
- David Williams, schoolmaster (died 1784)[16]
Deaths
[edit]- 22 January - Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, politician, 54[17]
- 6 June - James Herbert, politician, about 55[18]
- 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist and antiquary, 49[19]
- 22 August - John Jones, clergyman and physician, 63/64[20]
- August - Huw Morus, poet, 86/87[21]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b J.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. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
- ^ Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
- ^ From: '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
- ^ Guides and Handbooks, no 2. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Parry, David (1682-1714), scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "GAMBOLD family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ Mary Clement. "BEVAN, BRIDGET ('Madam Bevan'; 1698-1779), philanthropist and educationist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ David Williams. "MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY ( 1657-1727), industrialist and parliamentarian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ Griffith Milwyn Griffiths. "Foulkes, Humphrey (1673-1737), cleric and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ Money, D. K. "Holdsworth, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13498. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Wiliam, Dafydd Wyn (2004). "Wynn, William (bap. 1709, d. 1760)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
- ^ David Jenkins. "GLYNNE family, of Hawarden, Flints". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ "WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709-1784), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "HERBERT, Sir James (c.1644-1709), of Coldbrook Park, Mon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ Thomas Jones. "LHUYD, EDWARD (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "JONES, JOHN (1645-1709), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- ^ David Jenkins. "MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.