1711 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1711 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 – Philip Bisse^[7]

Events

• 23 August - Baptist minister Rev Abel Morgan is seen off by his congregation at Rhydwilim prior to embarking for a future in America.^[8]
• 23 September - Christmas Samuel is ordained at the request of his congregation at Panteg.^[9]
• unknown date
  • Thomas Durston begins printing Welsh language books at Shrewsbury.^[10]
  • Newtown Square Friends Meeting House is founded by Welsh immigrants in the Great Valley of Pennsylvania.^[11]
  • Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, becomes Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire.^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• Jonathan Edwards - A Vindication of the Doctrine of Original Sin from the exceptions of Dr. Daniel Whitby^[13]
• William Jones - Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones ac differentias^[14]
• Y Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin y Cydymaith Goreu: Yn y Tŷ a'r Stafell^[15]

Births

• approximate date
  • Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer (died 1777)
  • Josiah Owen, Presbyterian minister and controversialist (died 1755)
  • Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader (died 1790)^[16]

Deaths

• December - unnamed wife and son of Rev Abel Morgan (see Events), both of whom died on board ship during the voyage from Wales to Pennsylvania.^[8]

See also

• 1711 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. Book: Edward Geoffrey Watson Bill. The Queen Anne Churches: A Catalogue of the Papers in Lambeth Palace Library of the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches in London and Westminster, 1711-1759. Mansell. 1979. xxiii.
8. Book: Joanthan Davis. Joshua Thomas. History of the Welsh Baptists. 1835. D. M. Morgan. 91–.
9. s-SAMU-CHR-1674. SAMUEL, CHRISTMAS (1674-1764), Independent minister. John Dyfnallt Owen. 15 May 2018.
10. s-DURS-THO-1767. DURSTON, THOMAS (d. 1767), bookseller and printer at Shrewsbury. William Llewelyn Davies. yes. 15 May 2018.
11. Web site: Wilson. Conrad. Newtown Square Friends Meeting. History Quarterly Digital Archives. Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society. January 3, 2014. 1984.
12. http://www.history.ac.uk/publications/office/custodes1660 Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1660-1828
13. Book: Thomas Hartwell Horne. A catalogue of the library of the College of st. Margaret and st. Bernard, commonly called Queen's college, in the University of Cambridge. 1827. 153.
14. Book: The life and mind Oriental Jones. Garland Hampton Cannon. 1990. 2011-02-03.
15. Book: William Rowlands. Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century, with Biographical Notices. John Pryse. 1869. 292.
16. Book: John Fenwick. The Free Church of England: Introduction to an Anglican Tradition. 24 August 2004. A&C Black. 978-0-567-08433-0. 16.