1700s in Wales

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

17th century | 1710s | Other years in Wales

Other events of the decade

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (from 1714) (later George II)
• 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.
• 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

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)

1706

• William Jones - Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos

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)[1]
• 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

• June 27 - Hugh Owen, Independent minister, 60?
• July 11 - William Williams, Speaker of the House of Commons, 66
• September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, politician
• December 8 - Edward Harley, politician, 76
• December 16 - 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

• May 10 - 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

• December 1 - William Wogan, politician

1709

• June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist, 49

1717

• May 20 - John Trevor lawyer and politician, expelled Speaker of the House of Commons, c.80

References

1. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morris, Richard (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
2. Bertie George Charles. "Wogan families, Pembrokeshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 20 July 2019.