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1705 in Wales
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September 2019
1705
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1705 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 South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke Brown Richard Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 Routledge London England New York, NY 1991 9781134982707 25
Bishop of Bangor – John EvansCharles John Abbey The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800 Longmans, Green 1887 357–359
Bishop of Llandaff – William Beaw
Bishop of St Asaph – William BeveridgeDictionary of National Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=QdceippDYIEC&q=William+beveridge&pg=PA447 Grosart Rev. A. B. 1885 447–448
Bishop of St Davids – George Bull (consecrated 29 April)Bull, George
Events
29 April - George Bull is consecrated Bishop of St David's.John Lemprière Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical, of the Life and Character, Labors and Actions of Eminent Persons https://archive.org/details/universalbiogra00lempgoog 1810 E. Sargeant 247
May–June - In the 1705 English general election, Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, becomes MP for Anglesey, and Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, is MP for Monmouth Boroughs.Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers https://books.google.com/books?id=L1ETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8 1878 H.M. Stationery Office 8
date unknown - Edward Brereton is replaced as MP for Denbigh after having offended the local gentry.David Hayton Eveline Cruickshanks Stuart Handley The House of Commons, 1690-1715 https://books.google.com/books?id=XdphWLO1xLsC&pg=PA140 2002 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-78318-7 140
Arts and literature
New books
Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
Thomas Edwardes - Diocesan Episcopacy proved from Holy Scriptures-EDWA-THO-1652 Edwardes, Thomas (1652-1721), cleric and Coptic scholar Dafydd Rhys ap Thomas yes 20 June 2019
Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published)
Walter Morgan - The Parson's Jewels-MORG-WAL-1695 Morgan, Walter (fl. 1695), author Walter Thomas Morgan yes 2 August 2019
Births
6 May - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763)
date unknown
David Evans, Canon of St Asaph (d. 1788) Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician s-EVAN-DAV-1705 yes 1959 Griffith Robert David 1 November 2021
Dafydd Nicolas, poet (d. 1774)
Deaths
August - William Richards, author of Wallography, or the Britton describedRichards, William (1643-1705)
date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65
See also
1705 in Scotland
References
Category:1700s in Wales
Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales