1709 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1709 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 Cholmondeley^{[1] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke^{[1] [3]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Evans^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Fleetwood^[6]
• Bishop of St Davids – George Bull

Events

• 19 July - David Parry is appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in succession to Edward Lhuyd.^[7]
• 1 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.^[8]
• date unknown
  • Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) takes charge of a school at Laugharne.^[9]
  • The "Company of Mine Adventures", headed by Humphrey Mackworth, goes bankrupt.^[10]
  • Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.)^[11]

Arts and literature

New books

• Edward Holdsworth - The mouse-trap; or, The Welsh engagement with the mice (a mock-heroic satire on the Welsh people, published anonymously)^[12]

Births

• March - William Wynn, clergyman and poet (died 1760)^[13]
• 11 June - Philip David, Independent minister (died 1787)
• date unknown
  • Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (died 1730)^[14]
  • Joseph Hoare, academic (died 1802)
  • David Williams, schoolmaster (died 1784)^[15]

Deaths

• 22 January - Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, politician, 54^[16]
• 6 June - James Herbert, politician, about 55^[17]
• 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist and antiquary, 49^[18]
• 22 August - John Jones, clergyman and physician, 63/64^[19]
• August - Huw Morus, poet, 86/87^[20]

See also

• 1709 in Scotland

Notes and References

1. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
2. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
3. Book: Brown, Richard . Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 . Routledge . London England New York, NY . 1991 . 9781134982707 . 25.
4. Book: Charles John Abbey. The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. 1887. 357-359.
5. From: '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
6. Book: Guides and Handbooks, no 2. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. 203.
7. s-PARR-DAV-1682. Parry, David (1682-1714), scholar. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 18 January 2020.
8. s-GAMB-OLD-1650. GAMBOLD family. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 23 June 2018.
9. s-BEVA-BRI-1698. BEVAN, BRIDGET ('Madam Bevan'; 1698-1779), philanthropist and educationist. Mary Clement. yes. 23 June 2018.
10. s-MACK-HUM-1657. MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY (1657-1727), industrialist and parliamentarian. David Williams (historian). David Williams. yes. 23 June 2018.
11. s-FOUL-HUM-1673. Foulkes, Humphrey (1673-1737), cleric and antiquary. Griffith Milwyn Griffiths. yes. 18 January 2020.
12. 13498. Holdsworth, Edward. D. K.. Money.
13. Web site: Wynn, William (bap. 1709, d. 1760). Wiliam. Dafydd Wyn . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004 . 10 March 2009.
14. s-GLYN-PEN-1603. GLYNNE family, of Hawarden, Flints. David Jenkins. yes. 23 June 2018.
15. s-WILL-DAV-1709. WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709-1784), Independent minister. yes. 23 June 2018.
16. Herbert, Henry (1654-1709). 26.
17. Web site: HERBERT, Sir James (c.1644-1709), of Coldbrook Park, Mon. . History of Parliament Online . 1 June 2021.
18. s-LHUY-EDW-1660. LHUYD, EDWARD (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist. Thomas Jones. yes. 23 June 2018.
19. s-JONE-JOH-1645. JONES, JOHN (1645-1709), cleric. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. yes. 23 June 2018.
20. s-MORY-HUW-1622. MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet. David Jenkins. yes. 23 June 2018.