1709 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1709 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
 * Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke


 * Bishop of Bangor – John Evans
 * Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
 * Bishop of St Asaph – William Fleetwood
 * Bishop of St Davids – George Bull

Events

 * 19 July - David Parry is appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in succession to Edward Lhuyd.
 * 1 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.
 * date unknown
 * Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) takes charge of a school at Laugharne.
 * The "Company of Mine Adventures", headed by Humphrey Mackworth, goes bankrupt.
 * Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.)

New books

 * Edward Holdsworth - The mouse-trap; or, The Welsh engagement with the mice (a mock-heroic satire on the Welsh people, published anonymously)

Births

 * March - William Wynn, clergyman and poet (died 1760)
 * 11 June - Philip David, Independent minister (died 1787)
 * date unknown
 * Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (died 1730)
 * Joseph Hoare, academic (died 1802)
 * David Williams, schoolmaster (died 1784)

Deaths

 * 22 January - Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, politician, 54
 * 6 June - James Herbert, politician, about 55
 * 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist and antiquary, 49
 * 22 August - John Jones, clergyman and physician, 63/64
 * August - Huw Morus, poet, 86/87