1700s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1700–1709 to Wales and its people.
Events[edit]
1700
- Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly.
1701
- November - Humphrey Humphreys becomes Bishop of Hereford, and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by John Evans.
- Humphrey Mackworth becomes MP for Cardiganshire.
- Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, is temporarily removed from his position after being found guilty of simony and maladministration.
1702
- 23rd Regiment of Foot granted the title The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers.
1703
- Thomas Griffiths and a small group of followers settle at Welsh Tract, Delaware, where they found the Welsh Tract Baptist church.
- Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, marries Lady Essex Finch.
1704
- Jane Kemeys marries Sir John Tynte, 2nd Baronet, resulting in an alliance between two important families and the beginning of the Kemeys-Tynte dynasty.
- July - Richard Vaughan of Corsygedol becomes Constable of Harlech Castle.
1705
- George Bull becomes Bishop of St David's.
1706
- Crickhowell Bridge rebuilt in stone.
- Humphrey Mackworth's company grants £20 a year towards a charity school at Esgair Hir mine in Cardiganshire, £30 a year towards a minister there, and £20 a year towards a charity school at Neath.
1707
1708
- Edmund Meyrick sets up a school at Carmarthen.
- Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, marries Cecil Mathew of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch.
1709
Arts and literature[edit]
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New books[edit]
1702
- David Maurice - Cynffwrdd i'r gwan Gristion, neu'r gorsen ysig (translation from work of Theophilus Dorrington)
1703
- Ellis Wynne - Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc
1704
- Robert Nelson - A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England
1705
- Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
- Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published)
1706
- William Jones - Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos
1707
Births[edit]
1700
- 8 March – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician (d. 1731)
- date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete (d. 1737)
- probable – Lewis Evans, surveyor (d. 1756)
1701
- date unknown - Richard Trevor, bishop (d. 1771)
1702
- 20 May - Thomas Morgan, judge (d. 1769)
- date unknown - Humphrey Owen, academic (d. 1768)
1703
- 2 February - Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1779)[1]
- probable - Henry Arthur Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis (d. 1772)
1704
- May - Ann Maddocks, the "maid of Cefn Ydfa" (d. 1727)
1705
- 6 May - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763)
1707
- 1 February - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751)
1708
- 8 December - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist (d. 1759)
- date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary (d. 1781)
1709
- date unknown
- Joseph Hoare, academic (d. 1802)
- David Williams, schoolmaster (d. 1784)
Deaths[edit]
1700
- 27 June - Hugh Owen, Independent minister, 60?
- 11 July - William Williams, Speaker of the House of Commons, 66
- September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, politician
- 8 December - Edward Harley, politician, 76
- 16 December - Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox)
1701
- date unknown - Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet (in a duel)
1702
- January - James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey, 31
- 25 March - Lewis Wogan, High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, age unknown[2]
1703
- 10 May - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62
1704
- May - William Wynne, historian
1705
- date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65
1707
- date unknown - Edward Ravenscroft, dramatist
1708
- 1 December - William Wogan, politician
1709
- 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist, 49
1717
- 20 May - John Trevor lawyer and politician, expelled Speaker of the House of Commons, c.80
1720
- 7 March - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49[3]
- 22 August - Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, politician, about 55[4]
- 29 August - Charles Williams, merchant, 87[5]
1725
- 18 January - Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 62[6]
- 25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA.[7]
- 29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.[8]
- 15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician[9]
1790
- 4 March - Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of St Asaph, 57[10]
- 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80[11]
- 24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66[12]
- 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79[13]
- 5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65[14]
References[edit]
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Richard (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ Bertie George Charles. "Wogan families, Pembrokeshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "MORGAN, John II (1671-1720), of Tredegar, Mon". History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ Hayton, D. W. (2002). "Powell, Sir Thomas, 1st Bt. (c.1665-1720)". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690-1715. The History of Parliament Trust.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Williams, Charles (1633-1720), benefactor of his native town, Caerleon-on-Usk". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "History of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Pencander Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware". Retrieved 14 December 2012.
- ^ Baker, J. N. L. (1954). The Victoria History of the County of Oxford Volume III - The University of Oxford. The University of London Institute of Historical Research. p. 278.
- ^ Romney Sedgwick (1970). The House of Commons, 1715-1754: Members E-Y. History of Parliament Trust. p. 4.5.
- ^ "Samuel Hallifax (HLFS749S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Edwards, Frederick George (1900). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Rowland, Daniel (1713-1790), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.