1700s in Wales

1700s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1700 - 1709 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales (from 1714)
*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach (from 1714)

Events

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.
*Sir 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.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
*Sir 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.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.

Arts and literature

New books

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)1707
*Edward Lhuyd - "Archaeologia Britannica, vol. 1: Glossography"

Births

1700
*March 8 – 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
*May 20 - Thomas Morgan, judge (d. 1769)
*"date unknown" - Humphrey Owen, academic (d. 1768)

1703
*February 2 - Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1779)
*"probable" - Henry Arthur Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis (d. 1772)1704
*May - Ann Maddocks, the "maid of Cefn Ydfa" (d. 1727)

1705
*May 6 - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763)

1707
*February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751)

1708
*December 8 - 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

1700
*September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, politician
*December 8 - Sir Edward Harley, politician, 76
*"date unknown" - William Williams, Speaker of the House of Commons, 661701
*"date unknown" - Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet (in a duel)1702
*January - James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey, 311703
*May 10 - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 621708
*December 1 - William Wogan, politician1709
*June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist, 49


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