1700s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1700–1709 to Wales and its people. == Events == 1700 Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly. 1701 November - Humphrey Humphreys becomes Bishop of Hereford, and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by John Evans. Humphrey Mackworth becomes MP for Cardiganshire. Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, is temporarily removed from his position after being found guilty of simony and maladministration. 1702 23rd Regiment of Foot granted the title The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers. 1703 Thomas Griffiths and a small group of followers settle at Welsh Tract, Delaware, where they found the Welsh Tract Baptist church. Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, marries Lady Essex Finch. 1704 Jane Kemeys marries Sir John Tynte, 2nd Baronet, resulting in an alliance between two important families and the beginning of the Kemeys-Tynte dynasty. July - Richard Vaughan of Corsygedol becomes Constable of Harlech Castle. 1705 George Bull becomes Bishop of St David's. 1706 Crickhowell Bridge rebuilt in stone. Humphrey Mackworth's company grants £20 a year towards a charity school at Esgair Hir mine in Cardiganshire, £30 a year towards a minister there, and £20 a year towards a charity school at Neath. 1707 1708 Edmund Meyrick sets up a school at Carmarthen. Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, marries Cecil Mathew of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch. 1709 == New books == 1702 David Maurice - Cynffwrdd i'r gwan Gristion, neu'r gorsen ysig (translation from work of Theophilus Dorrington) 1703 Ellis Wynne - Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc 1704 Robert Nelson - A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England 1705 Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published) 1706 William Jones - Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos 1707 Edward Lhuyd - Archaeologia Britannica, vol. 1: Glossography == Births == 1700 8 March – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician (d. 1731) date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete (d. 1737) probable – Lewis Evans, surveyor (d. 1756) 1701 date unknown - Richard Trevor, bishop (d. 1771) 1702 20 May - Thomas Morgan, judge (d. 1769) date unknown - Humphrey Owen, academic (d. 1768) 1703 2 February - Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1779) probable - Henry Arthur Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis (d. 1772) 1704 May - Ann Maddocks, the "maid of Cefn Ydfa" (d. 1727) 1705 6 May - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763) 1707 1 February - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751) 1708 8 December - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist (d. 1759) date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary (d. 1781) 1709 date unknown Joseph Hoare, academic (d. 1802) David Williams, schoolmaster (d. 1784) == Deaths == 1700 27 June - Hugh Owen, Independent minister, 60? 11 July - William Williams, Speaker of the House of Commons, 66 September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, politician 8 December - Edward Harley, politician, 76 16 December - Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox) 1701 date unknown - Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet (in a duel) 1702 January - James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey, 31 25 March - Lewis Wogan, High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, age unknown 1703 10 May - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62 1704 May - William Wynne, historian 1705 date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65 1707 date unknown - Edward Ravenscroft, dramatist 1708 1 December - William Wogan, politician 1709 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist, 49 1717 20 May - John Trevor lawyer and politician, expelled Speaker of the House of Commons, c.80 1720 7 March - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49 22 August - Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, politician, about 55 29 August - Charles Williams, merchant, 87 1725 18 January - Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 62 25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA. 29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford. 15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician 1790 4 March - Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of St Asaph, 57 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80 24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79 5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65 == References ==