1712 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1712 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1712 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 – 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 – William FleetwoodGuides and Handbooks, no 2 Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) 1939 203 Bishop of St Davids – Philip BisseEdward Geoffrey Watson Bill The Queen Anne Churches: A Catalogue of the Papers in Lambeth Palace Library of the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches in London and Westminster, 1711-1759 Mansell 1979 xxiii Events 1 January Thomas Mansel, 5th Baronet, becomes 1st Baron Mansel.Charles Mosley Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd 2003 2 2394 Thomas Trevor is raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham.Trevor, Sir John Trevor, Sir John s.v. Thomas, Baron Trevor 27 257 Thomas Windsor, son of the Earl of Plymouth, is created Baron Mountjoy. Windsor, the second husband of Charlotte Jeffreys, daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, would sell much of his family's Welsh property, but their Glamorgan estates would pass through the marriage of a descendant, Charlotte Hickman-Windsor, to John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute.Mountjoy, Barons and Viscounts 18 941 July - On the death of its Principal Jonathan Edwards, Jesus College, Oxford, inherits his extensive library. Edwards is buried in the college chapel, whose restoration is funded by another bequest in his will.s-EDWA-JON-1629 EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1629 – 1712) Elwyn Evans 15 May 2018 August - Jonathan Edwards is replaced as Principal of Jesus by John Wynne, who has the support of the college Visitor, the Earl of Pembroke.s-WYNN-JOH-1667 25 July 2007 Jenkins Robert Thomas Robert Thomas Jenkins Wynne, John (1667–1743), bishop of S. Asaph and principal of Jesus College, Oxford yes October - Erasmus Lewis is appointed "provost-marshall-general in the Barbadoes".s-LEWI-ERA-1670 LEWIS, ERASMUS (1670-1754), writer of ‘news-letters’ and holder of posts under the Government yes William Llewelyn Davies 15 May 2018 Arts and literature New books The series of Welsh Almanacks printed by Thomas Jones is completed. (Jones dies the following year.)s-JONE-THO-1648 JONES, THOMAS (1648?-1713), of London and Shrewsbury, almanack maker, bookseller, printer, and publisher William Llewelyn Davies yes 15 May 2018 Robert Nelson - Cydymaith i Ddyddiau Gwylion ac Ymprydiau Eglwys Loegr (translation by Thomas Williams of A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England)s-NELS-ROB-1656 Nelson, Robert (1656-1715), non-juror, supporter of the S.P.C.K., and philanthropist Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 18 January 2020 Births January - David Owen, harpist (died 1741)s-OWEN-DAV-1709 OWEN, DAVID (‘Dafydd y Garreg Wen'; 1711/12-1741), harpist Robert David Griffith yes 15 May 2018 unknown date - Henry Thomas, Methodist exhorter and Independent minister (died 1802)s-THOM-HEN-1712 Thomas, Henry (1712-1802), Methodist exhorter and Independent minister Gomer Morgan Roberts 26 November 2025 Deaths 20 July - Jonathan Edwards, theologian and academic, 83s-EDWA-JON-1629 Edwards, Jonathan (1629–1712) Elwyn Evans yes 18 September 2021 12 September - Sir Thomas Williams, 1st Baronet, about 90http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/williams-sir-thomas-1621-1712 Edward Rowlands WILLIAMS, Sir Thomas, 1st Bt. (c.1621-1712), of Elham, Kent. History of Parliament 18 January 2020 20 November - Humphrey Humphreys, bishop, 63s-OWEN-DAV-1709 HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648-1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist Evan Gilbert Wright yes 25 June 2018 date unknown - Nicholas Bagenal, MP for Anglesey, about 83Montgomery-Massingberd Hugh Burke's Irish Family Records. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976 See also 1712 in Scotland References Category:1710s in Wales Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales Category:1712 in Europe Category:1712 by country