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1701
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1701 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of MacclesfieldJ.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 (until 5 November 1701; http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/gerard-hon-charles-1659-1701 GERARD, Hon. Charles (c.1659-1701), of Halsall, Lancs. History of Parliament Trust 11 January 2012 afterwards vacant until 1702)
Lord Lieutenant of North 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 – Humphrey HumphreysCharles John Abbey The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800 Longmans, Green 1887 357-359
Bishop of Llandaff – William Beaw
Bishop of St Asaph – Edward Jones
Bishop of St Davids – vacant
Events
February - Humphrey Mackworth becomes MP for Cardiganshire.s-MACK-HUM-1657 Mackworth, Humphrey (1657-1727), industrialist and parliamentarian David Williams 31 July 2019
June - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, is suspended by Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, for simony and maladministration.Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian https://books.google.com/books?id=9Q0iAQAAIAAJ 2000 The Society 52Jones, Edward (1641-1703)
8 September - A group of Welsh Baptists, led by Thomas Griffith, land in Philadelphia on the ship "James and Mary".John Woolf Jordan Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania https://books.google.com/books?id=arAfWBsvO1gC&pg=PA770 2004 Genealogical Publishing Com 978-0-8063-5239-8 770
16 September - On the death of the deposed King James II of England/VII of Scotland, his son James Francis Edward Stuart, the former Prince of Wales, is recognised by King Louis XIV of France as the rightful ruler of England, Scotland and Irelandhttp://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/Scottish%20Monarchs(400ad-1603)/TheJacobiteClaimants/PrinceJamesFrancisEdward.aspx# "Prince James Francis Edward", The British Monarchy 30 October 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055306/http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/Scottish%20Monarchs(400ad-1603)/TheJacobiteClaimants/PrinceJamesFrancisEdward.aspx# 4 March 2016 live dmy-all
2 December - Humphrey Humphreys is consecrated Bishop of Hereford;John Britton The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Hereford https://archive.org/details/historyantiquiti00brit_7 1831 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green 64– he is replaced as Bishop of Bangor in the following year by John Evans.
December - John Hanbury marries Albina, the daughter of John Selwyn of Gloucestershire, and is elected unopposed as MP for Gloucester.s-HANB-URY-1664 Hanbury family, of Pontypool industrialists Robert Stephen yes 1 August 2019
date unknown - Evan Evans begins holding Anglican services at a private house in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.s1-EVAN-EVA-1671 Evans, Evan (1671-1721), cleric and missioner in Pennsylvania Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 1 August 2019
Arts and literature
New books
James Owen - Translation into Welsh of the Shorter Westminster Catechisms-OWEN-JAM-1654 Owen, James (1654-1706), Dissenting divine and tutor Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 31 July 2019
Births
2 March - Lewis Morris, hydrographer, antiquary, poet and lexicographer, eldest of the four famous Morris brothers of Anglesey (died 1765)s-MORR-LEW-1701 Morris, Lewis (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701-1765), poet and scholar Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 31 July 2019
September - Sir John Wynn, 2nd Baronet (died 1773) http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/wynn-sir-john-1701-73 WYNN, Sir John, 2nd Bt. (1701-73), of Glynnllivon, Caern. History of Parliament Online (1754-1790) 18 February 2019
Deaths
August
Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet (in a duel)John Hanmer (1st baron) A Memorial of the Parish and Family of Hanmer in Flintshire ... https://books.google.com/books?id=TxwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA180 1876 priv. Press at the Chiswick Press 180s-HANM-HAN-1388 Hanmer family of Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens and Halton, Flintshire, and Pentre-pant, Salop Arthur Herbert Dodd yes 31 July 2019
Thomas Hanmer (cousin of the above), politician, about 531690 Hayton D. W. Hanmer, Thomas http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/hanmer-thomas-i-1648-1701
14 September - John Morgan, vicar of Aberconwy, writer, 38/39Thomas Parry, Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg hyd 1900 (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, 1944). (in Welsh)
5 November - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, about 41
date unknown - Hugh Nanney, MP for Merioneth, about 32http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/nanney-hugh-1669-1701 NANNEY, Hugh (c.1669-1701), of Nannau Hall, Llanfachreth, Merion History of Parliament Online 31 July 2019
See also
1701 in Scotland
References
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