- 1710s in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1710 - 1719 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales (from 1714)
*Princess of Wales -Caroline of Ansbach (from 1714)Events
1710
*John Wynne obtains permission from the bishop's court to change the name of Trelawnyd to "Newmarket".
*A committee of the House of Commons declares SirHumphrey Mackworth guilty of "many notorious and scandalous frauds".1711
*Thomas Durston begins printing Welsh books atShrewsbury .
*Baptist Church in the Great Valley (Pennsylvania ) is founded by Welsh immigrants.1712
*Jonathan Edwards dies, leaving his library toJesus College, Oxford .1713
*SirHumphrey Mackworth founds the formed the Company of Mineral Manufacturers.
*Edmund Meyrick dies, leaving a large bequest to Jesus College for scholarships for students from North Wales.1714
*May 8 - BishopAdam Ottley complains thatGriffith Jones (Llanddowror) has been "going about preaching on week days in Churches, Churchyards, and sometimes on the mountains, to hundreds of auditors".
*September 27 - Prince George, son of King George I, is invested as Prince of Wales. His wife, Caroline, automatically becomes Princess of Wales.1716
*Griffith Jones becomes rector ofLlanddowror .1717
*Japanning oftinplate begins atPontypool .1718
*The first legal printing press in Wales is established atAdpar inCarmarthenshire byIsaac Carter .1719
*The wrought-iron gates atSt Giles' Church, Wrexham , are completed by the Davies Brothers ofBersham .Arts and literature
New books
1711
*Jonathan Edwards - "A Vindication of the Doctrine of Original Sin from the exceptions of Dr. Daniel Whitby"1714
*John Morgan of Matchin - "Myfyrdodau bucheddol ar y pedwar peth diweddaf"
*Christmas Samuel - "Gemau Doethineb"Music
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Births
1710
*May 16 -William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot , politician (d. 1782)1713
*March 21 -Francis Lewis , signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1803)
*"date unknown"
**Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet (d. 1777)
**Daniel Rowland , Methodist leader (d. 1790)1714
*March -Edward Richard , schoolmaster and poet (d. 1777)
*August 1 - Richard Wilson, painter (d. 1782)
*"date unknown" - David Davies, clergyman and author (d. 1819)1716
*"date unknown" -Henry Owen , theologian (d. 1795)1717
*November 13 -Prince George William of Wales , first child born to the new Prince and Princess of Wales since they took their titles (d. 1718)1719
*November 30 -Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha , future Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
*"date unknown" -Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet , politician (d. 1769)Deaths
1712
*November 20 -Humphrey Humphreys , bishop, 63
*Jonathan Edwards, theologian and academic, 831713
*April 24 -Edmund Meyrick , priest and educational benefactor, 771715
*January 16 -Robert Nelson , philanthropist and non-juror, 581717
*May 20 - John Trevor, politician, 80?
*August 30 - William Lloyd, former Bishop of St Asaph, 901718
*February 17 -Prince George William of Wales , three months old
*December -Mary Steele , wife of SirRichard Steele , 401720
*December 31 -John Wynne , industrialist
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