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September 2019
1708
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1708 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 Beveridge (until 5 March);Dictionary of National Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=QdceippDYIEC&q=William+beveridge&pg=PA447 Grosart Rev. A. B. 1885 447–448 William Fleetwood (from 6 June)Guides and Handbooks, no 2 Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) 1939 203
Bishop of St Davids – George BullBull, George
Events
July - Following the British general election, some changes in representation occur in Wales:
Whig Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet, replaces Tory John Meyrick as MP for Pembroke
Whig Thomas Windsor replaces Sir Hopton Williams, 3rd Baronet, of the same party, as MP for Monmouthshire
Sir John Aubrey, 3rd Baronet, is re-elected as MP for Cardiff, after his opponent, Sir Edward Stradling, 5th Baronet, falls out with his supporters.https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/stradling-sir-edward-1672-1735 STRADLING, Sir Edward, 5th Bt. (1672-1735), of St. Donat's Castle, Glam. History of Parliament Online 10 June 2019https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/aubrey-sir-john-1680-1743 AUBREY, Sir John, 3rd Bt. (1680-1743), of Llantriddyd, Glam. and Boarstall, Bucks. History of Parliament Online 10 June 2019
John Roberts replaces Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, as MP for Denbigh Boroughs
October – Edmund Meyrick sets up a school at Carmarthen.The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion The Society 1906 187
Edward Lhuyd is elected a fellow of the Royal Society.s-LHUY-EDW-1660 LHUYD, EDWARD (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist Thomas Jones 24 June 2018
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, marries Cecil Mathew of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch.s-TALB-CHA-1685 TALBOT, CHARLES (1685-1737), 1st baron Talbot of Hensol (Glamorgan) and lord chancellor William Llewelyn Davies yes 24 June 2018
Arts and literature
New books
cy Cennad oddiwrth y Ser... (almanac)s-ROGE-JOH-1738 ROGERS, JOHN (d.1738), bookseller and printer at Shrewsbury William Llewelyn Davies yes 24 June 2018
Jenkin Evans - Catecism Byr i Blant (translation of Mathew Henry's Short Catechism for Children)s-EVAN-JEN-1674 Evans, Jenkin (1674-1709), Independent minister John Dyfnallt Owen yes 10 June 2019
Births
8 December - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist (died 1759)s-WILL-HAN-1708 Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury (1708-1759), satirical writer and diplomatist David Williams yes 10 June 2019
date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary (died 1781)s-PETT-JOH-1708 Pettingal, John (1708-1781), antiquary Walter Thomas Morgan yes 10 June 2019
probable
Joshua Andrews, Baptist minister (died 1793)Joshua Andrews s-ANDR-JOS-1708 yes 12 January 2016
Lewis Hopkin, poet and artisan (died 1771)Glamorgan County History W. Lewis (printers) limited 1936 612
Deaths
5 March – William Beveridge, Bishop of St Asaph, 71
23 March - Thomas Bulkeley, politician, 75Hayton D. W. Bulkeley, Hon. Thomas (c.1633-1708), of Dinas, Caern. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/bulkeley-hon-thomas-1633-1708 The History of Parliament 24 June 2018
1 December - William Wogan, judge and politician, about 70s-WOGA-PEN-1250 WOGAN families, Pembrokeshire Charles, Bertie George yes 24 June 2018
See also
1708 in Scotland
References
Category:1700s in Wales