1717 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1717 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 until 1729
• 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 until 1755
• 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 – Benjamin Hoadly^[5]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley

Events

• 31 March - In the presence of King George I of Great Britain, Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, gives a sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ", beginning the Bangorian Controversy.^[5]
• 19 September - Japanning of tinplate begins at Pontypool.^[8]
• date unknown
  • The Lower Swansea valley's first copper smelting works is opened by John Lane and John Pollard (possibly his step father-in-law) at Llangyfelach, Landore.^{[9] [10]}
  • Welsh-born David Lloyd is appointed Chief Justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• James Davies – Particular Thoughts on Religion^[11]
• Benjamin Hoadly – The Nature of the Kingdom, or Church of Christ^[12]

Welsh language

• Meddylieu Neillduol ar Grefydd
• Moses Williams – Welsh: Cofrestr o'r holl lyfrau printiedig gan mwyaf a gyfansoddwyd yn yr iaith Gymraeg (first-ever catalogue of Welsh printed books)^[13]

Births

• 11 February - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet, hymn-writer and religious leader (died 1791)^[14]
• 13 November - Prince George William, first child born to the new Prince and Princess of Wales, George and Caroline, since their arrival in Britain (died 1718)

Deaths

• 20 May - John Trevor, politician, 80?^[15]
• 3 June - Thomas Watson, former Bishop of St David's, 80^[16]
• 30 August - William Lloyd, former Bishop of St Asaph, 90^[17]
• date unknown - William Robinson, MP, about 50^[18]

See also

• 1717 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: West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1916. 167.
5. 13375. Hoadly, Benjamin.
6. 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
7. Book: Stephen Hyde Cassan. Lives of the Bishops of Bath. 1829. 162.
8. Chris Barber, Eastern Valley: The Story of Torfaen (Llanfoist: Blorenge Books, 1999), p.37
9. Book: The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales. Cardiff. University of Wales Press. 2008.
10. R. O. Roberts, 'Dr John Lane and the foundation of the non-ferrous metal industry in the Swansea valley' Gower 4 (1951), 19-24.
11. s-DAVI-JAM-1648. Davies, James (Iaco ap Dewi; 1648-1722) . Garfield Hopkin Hughes. 23 May 2017.
12. Book: Benjamin Hoadly. The Nature of the Kingdom, Or Church, of Christ: A Sermon Preach'd Before the King, at the Royal Chapel at St. James's, on Sunday March 31, 1717. James Knapton, at the Crown, and Timothy Childe, at the White Hart, in St. Paul's Church-Yard. 1717.
13. Book: Jeff Strabone. Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century: Imagined Antiquities. 26 October 2018. Springer. 978-3-319-95255-0. 159.
14. s-WILL-WIL-1717. Williams, William (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer. Gomer Morgan Roberts. yes. 18 January 2020.
15. s-TREV-OR0-0940. Trevor family, of Brynkynallt, Denbighshire. Arthur Herbert Dodd. yes. 18 January 2020.
16. Handley, S. (2004) "Watson, Thomas (1637–1717)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 21 Aug 2007 (subscription required)
17. Chalmer's Biography 1812, William Lloyd (1627–1717); vol. 20, p. 347
18. Web site: ROBINSON, William (c.1668–1717), of Gwersyllt, Denb.. History of Parliament Online. 19 July 2013.