1718 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 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

• February - Prince George William of Wales falls ill (later diagnosed as a heart disease); his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are allowed by King George I to visit him at Kensington Palace, despite having been banished from the royal presence a few months earlier.^[8]
• 11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates.^[9] Davis would subsequently capture another Welsh sailor, Bartholomew Roberts, and turn him to piracy.
• 9 November - Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's.^[10]
• date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire.^[11]

Arts and literature

New books

• Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau^[12]
• Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published)^[13]
• Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco^[14]

Births

• July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773)^[15]
• date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794)^[16]

Deaths

• 17 February - Prince George William of Wales, the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, aged three months
• 30 April - Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet,^[17]
• 1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72^[18]
• 26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40^[19]
• date unknown
  • Sir Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, former High Sheriff of Denbighshire^[20]
  • William Evans, dissenting minister^[21]
  • Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirk^[22]

See also

• 1718 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. [John Van der Kiste|Van der Kiste, John]
9. Book: Breverton, Terry. Terry Breverton

   . Terry Breverton. 2003. The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers. Sain Tathan. Glyndwr Publishing. 1-903529-09-3.

10. s-EVAN-THE-1693. EVANS, THEOPHILUS. Enid Pierce Roberts. 19 February 2017.
11. s-CART-ISA-1741. CARTER, ISAAC. Sir William Llewelyn Davies. yes. 19 February 2017.
12. Book: Meic Stephens. Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru. 1998. University of Wales Press. 978-0-7083-1383-1. 805.
13. Book: National Library of Wales. M. Gwyneth Lewis. The printed maps of Radnorshire, 1578-1900. 1977. The Library. 978-0-901833-81-5. 2.
14. Book: Trysorfa y plant: cyhoeddiad misol i ieuenctyd. 1913. P.M. Evans. cy. 35.
15. s-JONE-WIL-1718. JONES, WILLIAM. William Griffith. yes. 19 February 2017.
16. s-WILL-HUG-1718. WILLIAMS, Sir HUGH. Robert Thomas Jenkins. yes. 19 February 2017.
17. Book: LEAVES OF A STUNTED SHRUB Vol Two. 2009. Richard Baldwin Cook. 978-0-9791257-6-8. 1–3.
18. Book: George William Logan. A Record of the Logan Family of Charleston, South Carolina. 1874. 16.
19. Book: George Atherton Aitken. The Life of Richard Steele. 1968. Ardent Media. 192.
20. s-BROU-MAR-1500. BROUGHTON family of Marchwiel, Denbs.. A. H. Dodd. yes. 19 February 2017.
21. s-EVAN-WIL-1718. EVANS, WILLIAM. Thomas Richards. yes. 19 February 2017.
22. s-MYDD-ELT-1207. MYDDELTON. A. H. Dodd. yes. 19 February 2017.