1716 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Year in Wales header 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
References
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- ↑ 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
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