1709 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1709 to Wales and its people.

← 1708 1707 1706 1705 1704 1709 in Wales → 1710 1711 1712 1713 1714
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1709 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 19 July - David Parry is appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in succession to Edward Lhuyd.[1]
• 1 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.[2]
• date unknown
  • Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) takes charge of a school at Laugharne.[3]
  • The "Company of Mine Adventures", headed by Humphrey Mackworth, goes bankrupt.[4]
  • Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.)[5]

Arts and literature

New books

• Edward Holdsworth - The mouse-trap; or, The Welsh engagement with the mice (a mock-heroic satire on the Welsh people, published anonymously)[6]

Births

• March - William Wynn, clergyman and poet (died 1760)[7]
• 11 June - Philip David, Independent minister (died 1787)
• date unknown
  • Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (died 1730)[8]
  • Joseph Hoare, academic (died 1802)
  • David Williams, schoolmaster (died 1784)[9]

Deaths

• 22 January - Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, politician, 54[10]
• 6 June - James Herbert, politician, about 55[11]
• 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist and antiquary, 49[12]
• 22 August - John Jones, clergyman and physician, 63/64[13]
• August - Huw Morus, poet, 86/87[14]

See also

• 1709 in Scotland

References

1. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Parry, David (1682-1714), scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
2. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "GAMBOLD family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
3. Mary Clement. "BEVAN, BRIDGET ('Madam Bevan'; 1698-1779), philanthropist and educationist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
4. David Williams. "MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY ( 1657-1727), industrialist and parliamentarian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
5. Griffith Milwyn Griffiths. "Foulkes, Humphrey (1673-1737), cleric and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
6. Money, D. K. "Holdsworth, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13498. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
7. Wiliam, Dafydd Wyn (2004). "Wynn, William (bap. 1709, d. 1760)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
8. David Jenkins. "GLYNNE family, of Hawarden, Flints". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
9. "WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709-1784), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
10. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Herbert, Henry (1654-1709)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
11. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/herbert-sir-james-1644-1709
12. Thomas Jones. "LHUYD, EDWARD (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
13. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "JONES, JOHN (1645-1709), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
14. David Jenkins. "MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.