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1716
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1716 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 Glamorgan – vacant
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby Brown Richard Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 Routledge London England New York 1991 9781134982707 25West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales W. Spurrell and son 1916 167
Bishop of Bangor – John Evans (until January)Charles John Abbey The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800 Longmans, Green 1887 357–359 Benjamin Hoadly (from 18 March)13375 Hoadly, Benjamin
Bishop of Llandaff – John TylerFrom: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
Bishop of St Asaph – John WynneStephen Hyde Cassan Lives of the Bishops of Bath 1829 162
Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley63755 Ottley, Adam J. D. Davies
Events
January John Evans, Bishop of Bangor, is translated to Meath in Ireland, leaving Wales without any Welsh-speaking bishops for a prolonged period.Richard Brown Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850 https://books.google.com/books?id=ewWKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA106 4 January 2002 Routledge 978-1-134-98270-7 106
27 July Griffith Jones becomes rector of Llanddowror, under the patronage of his brother-in-law Sir John Philipps, 4th Baronet.Jeremy Gregory Jeffrey Scott Chamberlain The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800 https://books.google.com/books?id=RxvjZPdjMLcC&pg=PA277 2003 Boydell Press 978-0-85115-897-6 277
9 November – In London, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son, Prince Augustus George of Wales.H. Eugene Lehman Lives of England's Reigning and Consort Queens https://books.google.com/books?id=boaYGR2H394C&pg=PA539 13 October 2011 Author House 978-1-4634-3055-9 539
Arts and literature
New books
Myles Davies – Athenae Britannicae (six vols., London)s-DAVI-MYL-1662 DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662-1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer John James Jones 11 March 2018
Welsh translation of works by Tertullian and Cyprian, probably by John Morgan of Matchins-MORG-JOH-1688 MORGAN JOHN ('John Morgan of Matchin', 1688? - 1734?) Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 11 March 2018
Births
date unknown – Henry Owen, theologian (died 1795)
probable – Howel Davies, Methodist clergyman (died 1770)s-DAVI-HOW-1716 DAVIES, HOWEL (c.1716-1770), Methodist cleric Gomer Morgan Roberts yes 11 March 2018
Deaths
26 January – Daniel Williams, theologian, 72?
8 May – Thomas Allgood I, originator of the japanning industry at Pontypool and Usks-ALLG-OOD-1640 ALLGOOD family, of Pontypool and Usk Robert Stephen yes 11 March 2018
29 June – Richard Lucas, clergyman and writer, 65LCS677R Richard Lucas
29 September – David Edwards, Independent minister, 56s-EDWA-DAV-1660 EDWARDS, DAVID (1660-1716), Independent minister Thomas Eurig Davies yes 11 March 2018
date unknown – Howell Powell, Congregational ministers-POWE-HOW-1716 POWELL, HOWELL (d. 1716), Congregational minister John Dyfnallt Owen John Dyfnallt Owen yes 11 March 2018
See also
1716 in Scotland
References
Category:1710s in Wales
Category:Years of the 18th century in Wales
Category:1716 in Europe
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