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1719 in Wales
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September 2019
1719
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1719 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 until 1729
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 until 1755
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; 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 – Benjamin Hoadly13375 Hoadly, Benjamin
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 – John Wynne Stephen Hyde Cassan Lives of the Bishops of Bath 1829 162
Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley63755 Ottley, Adam J. D. Davies
Events
March – The 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot is raised by Colonel Edmund Fielding as Edmund Fielding's Regiment of Foot.http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/041-719.htm 41st (the Welsh) Regiment of Foot regiments.org dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070223230119/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/041-719.htm 23 February 2007 21 May 2018
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The Davies brothers of Bersham begin work on the wrought-iron gates at Chirk Castle.Wales Tourist Board Castles and historic places in Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=TsgjHm9ZWLsC August 1974 The Board 978-0-900784-21-7 41
The first permanent legal printing press in Wales is established at Adpar by Isaac Carter of Carmarthenshire. It is believed that its first two publications are Cân o Senn i’w hen Feistr Tobacco by Alban Thomas and Cân ar Fesur Triban ynghylch Cydwybod a’i Chynheddfau.About Adpar Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar 2012-02-11 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20091008070817/http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar 2009-10-08
On the death without heirs of Sir John Wynne, the Wynnstay estate passes to Jane Thelwall, the great-granddaughter of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet.
The Welsh Charity School in London moves to Ailesbury Chapel, Clerkenwell, where it remains until about 1721.Philip Temple Clerkenwell Green Survey of London 46 South and East Clerkenwell New Haven, London English Heritage 2008 86–114 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119413#s14 9780300137279
Arts and literature
New books
Christmas Samuel – Catecism o'r Scrythur
Eglurhad o Gatechism Byrraf y Gymanfas-CART-ISA-1741 Carter, Isaac William Llewelyn Davies 25 June 2019
Browne Willis – Survey of Llandaffs-PARR-GEO-1613 Parry, George William Llewelyn Davies yes 25 June 2019
Births
February – William Edwards, clergyman and bridge engineer (d. 1789)s-EDWA-WIL-1719 Edwards, William (1719-1789), Independent minister, and architect Edward Ivor Williams yes 25 June 2019
22 February – Joshua Thomas, writer and Particular Baptist minister (d. 1797)s-THOM-JOS-1718 Thomas, Joshua (1719-1797), Baptist minister and historian yes 25 June 2019
17 June – Joshua Parry, nonconformist minister and writer (d. 1776)s-PARR-JOS-1719 Parry, Joshua (1719-1776), Nonconformist minister, and writer Robert Thomas Jenkins Emyr Wyn Jones yes 25 June 2019
30 November – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, future Princess of Wales (d. 1772)Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain Williamson David 1986 Salem House 978-0-88162-213-3 157
date unknown – Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1769)s-LLOY-PET-1747 Lloyd family, of Peterwell Herbert Johnes Lloyd-Johnes yes 25 June 2019
Deaths
11 January – Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet, 90Wynn, John 63
4 April – Thomas Powys, judge, 70/71 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/powys-sir-thomas-1649-1719 POWYS, Sir Thomas (c.1649-1719), of Henley, nr. Ludlow, Salop and Lilford cum Wigsthorpe, Northants. History of Parliament Online 11 July 2019
19 June – Captain Howell Davis, pirate, ca 29
11 October – Samuel Jones, Dissenting minister and tutors-JONE-SAM-1681 Jones, Samuel ([1681?]-1719), Dissenting Academy tutor Robert Thomas Jenkins yes 25 June 2019
References
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