1718 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 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 until 1729
• 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 until 1755
• 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 – Benjamin Hoadly ^[5]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler ^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne ^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley ^[8]

Events

• February - Prince George William of Wales falls ill (later diagnosed as a heart disease); his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are allowed by King George I to visit him at Kensington Palace, despite having been banished from the royal presence a few months earlier. ^[9]
• 11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates. ^[10] Davis would subsequently capture another Welsh sailor, Bartholomew Roberts, and turn him to piracy.
• 9 November - Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's. ^[11]
• date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire. ^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau ^[13]
• Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published) ^[14]
• Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco ^[15]

Births

• July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773) ^[16]
• date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794) ^[17]

Deaths

• 17 February - Prince George William of Wales, the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, aged three months
• 30 April - Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet, ^[18]
• 1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72 ^[19]
• 26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40 ^[20]
• date unknown
  • Sir Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, former High Sheriff of Denbighshire ^[21]
  • William Evans, dissenting minister ^[22]
  • Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirk ^[23]

See also

• 1718 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, NY: 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. "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.)
6. From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
7. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
8. 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.)
9. Van der Kiste, John (1997) George II and Queen Caroline. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN   0-7509-1321-5
10. Breverton, Terry (2003). The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers. Sain Tathan: Glyndwr Publishing. ISBN   1-903529-09-3.
11. Enid Pierce Roberts. "EVANS, THEOPHILUS". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 19 February 2017.
12. Sir William Llewelyn Davies. "CARTER , ISAAC". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
13. Meic Stephens (1998). Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru. University of Wales Press. p. 805. ISBN   978-0-7083-1383-1.
14. National Library of Wales; M. Gwyneth Lewis (1977). The printed maps of Radnorshire, 1578-1900. The Library. p. 2. ISBN   978-0-901833-81-5.
15. Trysorfa y plant: cyhoeddiad misol i ieuenctyd (in Welsh). P.M. Evans. 1913. p. 35.
16. William Griffith. "JONES, WILLIAM". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
17. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "WILLIAMS, Sir HUGH". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
18. LEAVES OF A STUNTED SHRUB Vol Two. Richard Baldwin Cook. 2009. pp. 1–3. ISBN   978-0-9791257-6-8.
19. George William Logan (1874). A Record of the Logan Family of Charleston, South Carolina. pp.  16.
20. George Atherton Aitken (1968). The Life of Richard Steele. Ardent Media. p. 192.
21. A. H. Dodd. "BROUGHTON family of Marchwiel, Denbs.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
22. Thomas Richards. "EVANS, WILLIAM". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
23. A. H. Dodd. "MYDDELTON". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.