1710s in Wales

1710s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1710 - 1719 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*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 Sir Humphrey Mackworth guilty of "many notorious and scandalous frauds".

1711
*Thomas Durston begins printing Welsh books at Shrewsbury.
*Baptist Church in the Great Valley (Pennsylvania) is founded by Welsh immigrants.

1712
*Jonathan Edwards dies, leaving his library to Jesus College, Oxford.

1713
*Sir Humphrey 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 - Bishop Adam Ottley complains that Griffith 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 of Llanddowror.

1717
*Japanning of tinplate begins at Pontypool.

1718
*The first legal printing press in Wales is established at Adpar in Carmarthenshire by Isaac Carter.

1719
*The wrought-iron gates at St Giles' Church, Wrexham, are completed by the Davies Brothers of Bersham.

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 Sir Richard Steele, 401720
*December 31 - John Wynne, industrialist


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