1709 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1709 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1709 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 – George BullBull, George Events 19 July - David Parry is appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in succession to Edward Lhuyd.s-PARR-DAV-1682 Parry, David (1682-1714), scholar Robert Thomas Jenkins 18 January 2020 1 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.s-GAMB-OLD-1650 GAMBOLD family Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 23 June 2018 date unknown Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) takes charge of a school at Laugharne.s-BEVA-BRI-1698 BEVAN, BRIDGET ('Madam Bevan'; 1698-1779), philanthropist and educationist Mary Clement yes 23 June 2018 The "Company of Mine Adventures", headed by Humphrey Mackworth, goes bankrupt.s-MACK-HUM-1657 MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY ( 1657-1727), industrialist and parliamentarian David Williams (historian) David Williams yes 23 June 2018 Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.s-FOUL-HUM-1673 Foulkes, Humphrey (1673-1737), cleric and antiquary Griffith Milwyn Griffiths yes 18 January 2020 Arts and literature New books Edward Holdsworth - The mouse-trap; or, The Welsh engagement with the mice (a mock-heroic satire on the Welsh people, published anonymously)13498 Holdsworth, Edward D. K. Money Births March - William Wynn, clergyman and poet (died 1760)Wynn, William (bap. 1709, d. 1760) Wiliam Dafydd Wyn Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30156 10 March 2009 11 June - Philip David, Independent minister (died 1787) date unknown Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (died 1730)s-GLYN-PEN-1603 GLYNNE family, of Hawarden, Flints David Jenkins yes 23 June 2018 Joseph Hoare, academic (died 1802) David Williams, schoolmaster (died 1784)s-WILL-DAV-1709 WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709-1784), Independent minister yes 23 June 2018 Deaths 22 January - Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, politician, 54Herbert, Henry (1654-1709) 26 6 June - James Herbert, politician, about 55HERBERT, Sir James (c.1644-1709), of Coldbrook Park, Mon. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/herbert-sir-james-1644-1709 History of Parliament Online 1 June 2021 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist and antiquary, 49s-LHUY-EDW-1660 LHUYD, EDWARD (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist Thomas Jones yes 23 June 2018 22 August - John Jones, clergyman and physician, 63/64s-JONE-JOH-1645 JONES, JOHN (1645-1709), cleric Thomas Iorwerth Ellis yes 23 June 2018 August - Huw Morus, poet, 86/87s-MORY-HUW-1622 MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet David Jenkins yes 23 June 2018 See also 1709 in Scotland References Category:1700s in Wales Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales