1714 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1714 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1714 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Other Windsor, 2nd Earl of Plymouth (until 21 October); Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley (from 21 October); J.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 Fleetwood (until 11 January)Guides and Handbooks, no 2 Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) 1939 203 John Wynne (from 11 January) Stephen Hyde Cassan Lives of the Bishops of Bath 1829 162 Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley63755 Ottley, Adam J. D. Davies Events 8 May - Adam Ottley, Bishop of St David's, complains that Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) has been "going about preaching on week days in Churches, Churchyards, and sometimes on the mountains, to hundreds of auditors".s-JONE-GRI-1683 JONES, GRIFFITH (1683-1761), cleric and educational reformer Mary Clement 4 May 2018 1 August - George I of Great Britain becomes king, and soon replaces the Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, the Earl of Plymouth with his favoured candidate, the previous incumbent, the Earl of Cholmondeley. The first bishop he appoints is John Wynne, principal of Jesus College, Oxford, who becomes Bishop of St Asaph, but does not take up his new position until the following year, preferring the academic life. September 27 - Prince George, son of King George I, is invested as Prince of Wales. His wife, Caroline of Ansbach, becomes the first Princess of Wales to receive the title at the same time as her husbandM. Fryer Fryer, Mary Beacock Bousfield, Arthur Toffoli, Garry Lives of the Princesses of Wales Dundern Press Toronto 1983 978-0-919670-69-3 https://books.google.com/books?id=DHLwPQgX24QC&dq=caroline+of+ansbach+queen&pg=PA33 33 and the first Princess of Wales for over two hundred years. October - The new Princess of Wales arrives in Britain with two of her children.R. L. Arkell 1939 Caroline of Ansbach Oxford University Press London 64–66 date unknown Erasmus Saunders marries the daughter of Humphrey Lloyd of Aberbechan.s-SAUN-ERA-1670 SAUNDERS, ERASMUS (1670-1724), divine Mary Clement yes 4 May 2018 Following the death of Robert Jeffreys, a descendant of George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, the last member of the Jeffreys family to reside at Acton Hall, Wrexham, the estate passes into the hands of a brother-in-law, Philip Egerton.http://www.friendsofactonpark.co.uk/the-park/history/ The History of Acton Park Friends of Acton Park 5 May 2018 20 August 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200820113053/http://www.friendsofactonpark.co.uk/the-park/history/ dead Arts and literature New books English language James Davies (Iaco ap Dewi) - Daily Communion with God (translation)s-DAVI-JAM-1648 DAVIES, JAMES (Iaco ap Dewi; 1648-1722) Garfield Hopkin Hughes yes 5 May 2018 Sir John Doderidge - An Historical Account of the Ancient and Modern State of the Principality of Wales... Welsh language William Dyer - Cyfoeth i'r CymruWilliam Rowlands Cambrian Bibliography John Pryse 1869 303 John Morgan of Matchin - Myfyrdodau bucheddol ar y pedwar peth diweddaf http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62912 Morgan, John (1688–1733/4) Edwards Huw M. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access) Oxford University Press 2004 2008-04-10 Rhys Prydderch/Christmas Samuel - Gemau Doethinebs-SAMU-CHR-1674 Samuel, Christmas (1674-1764), Independent minister John Dyfnallt Owen 6 February 2024 Births 23 January - Howell Harris, Methodist leader (died 1773)s-HARR-HOW-1714 Harris, Howel(l) (1714-1773), religious reformer Gomer Morgan Roberts yes 23 June 2019 March - Edward Richard, schoolmaster and poet (died 1777)s-RICH-EDW-1714 Richard, Edward (1714-1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet David Gwenallt Jones yes 23 June 2019 1 August – Richard Wilson, painter (died 1782)Wilson, Richard 62 120–23 Deaths 24 May - Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, Welsh-born landowner, 30Somerset, Henry 22 June - Matthew Henry, Presbyterian minister, 51 8 or 10 December - David Parry, scholar, assistant to Edward Lhuyd, about 30s-PARR-DAV-1682 Parry, David (1682?–1714), scholar Jenkins Robert Thomas yes 25 June 2018 31 December - John Wynne, industrialist, 64s-WYNN-JOH-1650 Wynne, John (1650–1714), industrial pioneer yes 1959 Jenkins Robert Thomas Robert Thomas Jenkins 8 April 2009 References Category:1710s in Wales Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales Category:1714 in Europe Category:1714 by country