1716 in Wales explained

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 Cholmondeley^{[1] [2]}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby^{[1] [3] [4]}
• Bishop of Bangor – John Evans (until January)^[5] Benjamin Hoadly (from 18 March)^[6]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler^[7]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne^[8]
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley

Events

• January John Evans, Bishop of Bangor, is translated to Meath in Ireland, leaving Wales without any Welsh-speaking bishops for a prolonged period.^[9]
• 27 July Griffith Jones becomes rector of Llanddowror, under the patronage of his brother-in-law Sir John Philipps, 4th Baronet.^[10]
• 9 November – In London, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son, Prince Augustus George of Wales.^[11]

Arts and literature

New books

• Myles Davies – Athenae Britannicae (six vols., London)^[12]
• Welsh translation of works by Tertullian and Cyprian, probably by John Morgan of Matchin^[13]

Births

• date unknown – Henry Owen, theologian (died 1795)
• probable – Howel Davies, Methodist clergyman (died 1770)^[14]

Deaths

• 26 January – Daniel Williams, theologian, 72?
• 8 May – Thomas Allgood I, originator of the japanning industry at Pontypool and Usk^[15]
• 29 June – Richard Lucas, clergyman and writer, 65
• 29 September – David Edwards, Independent minister, 56^[16]
• date unknown – Howell Powell, Congregational minister^[17]

See also

• 1716 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 . 1991 . 9781134982707 . 25.
4. Book: West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1916. 167.
5. Book: Charles John Abbey. The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. 1887. 357–359.
6. 13375. Hoadly, Benjamin.
7. 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
8. Book: Stephen Hyde Cassan. Lives of the Bishops of Bath. 1829. 162.
9. Book: Richard Brown. Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850. 4 January 2002. Routledge. 978-1-134-98270-7. 106.
10. Book: Jeremy Gregory. Jeffrey Scott Chamberlain. The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800. 2003. Boydell Press. 978-0-85115-897-6. 277.
11. Book: H. Eugene Lehman. Lives of England's Reigning and Consort Queens. 13 October 2011. Author House. 978-1-4634-3055-9. 539.
12. s-DAVI-MYL-1662. DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662-1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer. John James. Jones. 11 March 2018.
13. s-MORG-JOH-1688. MORGAN JOHN (‘John Morgan of Matchin’, 1688? - 1734?),. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 11 March 2018.
14. s-DAVI-HOW-1716. DAVIES, HOWEL (c.1716-1770), Methodist cleric. Gomer Morgan Roberts. yes. 11 March 2018.
15. s-ALLG-OOD-1640. ALLGOOD family, of Pontypool and Usk. Robert Stephen. yes. 11 March 2018.
16. s-EDWA-DAV-1660. EDWARDS, DAVID (1660-1716), Independent minister. Thomas Eurig Davies. yes. 11 March 2018.
17. s-POWE-HOW-1716. POWELL, HOWELL (d. 1716), Congregational minister. John Dyfnallt Owen. John Dyfnallt Owen. yes. 11 March 2018.