1716 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1716 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley ^{[1] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera) ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet ^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby ^{[1] [3] [4]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Evans (until January) ^[5] Benjamin Hoadly (from 18 March) ^[6]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler ^[7]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne ^[8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley ^[9]

Events

• January John Evans, Bishop of Bangor, is translated to Meath in Ireland, leaving Wales without any Welsh-speaking bishops for a prolonged period. ^[10]
• 27 July Griffith Jones becomes rector of Llanddowror, under the patronage of his brother-in-law Sir John Philipps, 4th Baronet. ^[11]
• 9 November – In London, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son, Prince Augustus George of Wales. ^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• Myles Davies – Athenae Britannicae (six vols., London) ^[13]
• Welsh translation of works by Tertullian and Cyprian, probably by John Morgan of Matchin ^[14]

Births

• date unknown – Henry Owen, theologian (died 1795)
• probable – Howel Davies, Methodist clergyman (died 1770) ^[15]

Deaths

• 26 January – Daniel Williams, theologian, 72?
• 8 May – Thomas Allgood I, originator of the japanning industry at Pontypool and Usk ^[16]
• 29 June – Richard Lucas, clergyman and writer, 65 ^[17]
• 29 September – David Edwards, Independent minister, 56 ^[18]
• date unknown – Howell Powell, Congregational minister ^[19]

See also

• 1716 in Scotland

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN   9780806313146.
3. Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN   9781134982707.
4. West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1916. p. 167.
5. Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
6. "Hoadly, Benjamin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13375.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
7. From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
8. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
9. Davies, J. D. "Ottley, Adam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63755.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
10. Richard Brown (4 January 2002). Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850. Routledge. p. 106. ISBN   978-1-134-98270-7.
11. Jeremy Gregory; Jeffrey Scott Chamberlain (2003). The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800. Boydell Press. p. 277. ISBN   978-0-85115-897-6.
12. H. Eugene Lehman (13 October 2011). Lives of England's Reigning and Consort Queens. Author House. p. 539. ISBN   978-1-4634-3055-9.
13. Jones, John James. "DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662-1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 11 March 2018.
14. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORGAN JOHN ('John Morgan of Matchin', 1688? - 1734?)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
15. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "DAVIES, HOWEL (c.1716-1770), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
16. Robert Stephen. "ALLGOOD family, of Pontypool and Usk". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
17. "Richard Lucas (LCS677R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
18. Thomas Eurig Davies. "EDWARDS, DAVID (1660-1716), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
19. John Dyfnallt Owen. "POWELL, HOWELL (d. 1716), Congregational minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.