1718 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1718 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 CholmondeleyJ.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera) Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby Brown Richard Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 Routledge London England New York, NY 1991 9781134982707 25West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales W. Spurrell and son 1916 167 Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly13375 Hoadly, Benjamin Bishop of Llandaff – John TylerFrom: '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 Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne Stephen Hyde Cassan Lives of the Bishops of Bath 1829 162 Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley63755 Ottley, Adam J. D. Davies 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.Van der Kiste, John (1997) George II and Queen Caroline. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. 0-7509-1321-5 11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates.Breverton Terry Terry Breverton 2003 The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers Sain Tathan Glyndwr Publishing 1-903529-09-3 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.s-EVAN-THE-1693 EVANS, THEOPHILUS Enid Pierce Roberts 19 February 2017 date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire.s-CART-ISA-1741 CARTER, ISAAC Sir William Llewelyn Davies yes 19 February 2017 Arts and literature New books Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o GanuauMeic Stephens Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ 1998 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1383-1 805 Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published)National Library of Wales M. Gwyneth Lewis The printed maps of Radnorshire, 1578-1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=XCAsAQAAIAAJ 1977 The Library 978-0-901833-81-5 2 Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr TobaccoTrysorfa y plant: cyhoeddiad misol i ieuenctyd https://books.google.com/books?id=juGzd2sdrfYC 1913 P.M. Evans cy 35 Births July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773)s-JONE-WIL-1718 JONES, WILLIAM William Griffith yes 19 February 2017 date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794)s-WILL-HUG-1718 WILLIAMS, Sir HUGH Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 19 February 2017 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,LEAVES OF A STUNTED SHRUB Vol Two https://books.google.com/books?id=P3TWry2cVJQC&pg=RA1-PA103 2009 Richard Baldwin Cook 978-0-9791257-6-8 1–3 1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72George William Logan A Record of the Logan Family of Charleston, South Carolina https://archive.org/details/arecordloganfam00socigoog 1874 16 26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40George Atherton Aitken The Life of Richard Steele https://books.google.com/books?id=xvDU6jubUA8C&pg=PA192 1968 Ardent Media 192 date unknown Sir Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, former High Sheriff of Denbighshires-BROU-MAR-1500 BROUGHTON family of Marchwiel, Denbs. A. H. Dodd yes 19 February 2017 William Evans, dissenting ministers-EVAN-WIL-1718 EVANS, WILLIAM Thomas Richards yes 19 February 2017 Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirks-MYDD-ELT-1207 MYDDELTON A. H. Dodd yes 19 February 2017 See also 1718 in Scotland References 1718 Category:1710s in Wales Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales Category:1718 in Europe Category:1718 by country