1712 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1712 to Wales and its people.
Contents
Incumbents[edit]
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events[edit]
- 1 January
- Thomas Mansel, 5th Baronet, becomes 1st Baron Mansel.
- Thomas Trevor is raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham.[1]
- Thomas Windsor, son of the Earl of Plymouth, is created Baron Mountjoy. Windsor, the second husband of Charlotte Jeffreys, daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, would sell much of his family's Welsh property, but their Glamorgan estates would pass through the marriage of a descendant, Charlotte Hickman-Windsor, to John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute.[2]
- July - On the death of its Principal Jonathan Edwards, Jesus College, Oxford, inherits his extensive library. Edwards is buried in the college chapel, whose restoration is funded by another bequest in his will.[3]
- August - Jonathan Edwards is replaced as Principal of Jesus by John Wynne, who has the support of the college Visitor, the Earl of Pembroke.[4]
- October - Erasmus Lewis is appointed "provost-marshall-general in the Barbadoes".[5]
Arts and literature[edit]
New books[edit]
- The series of Welsh Almanacks printed by Thomas Jones is completed. (Jones dies the following year.)[6]
Births[edit]
- January - David Owen, harpist (died 1741)[7]
Deaths[edit]
- 20 November - Humphrey Humphreys, bishop, 63[8]
- 20 July - Jonathan Edwards, theologian and academic, 83
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Trevor, Sir John s.v. Thomas, Baron Trevor". Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 257.
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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mountjoy, Barons and Viscounts". Encyclopædia Britannica. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 941.
- ^ Evans, Elwyn. "EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1629 – 1712)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Wynne, John (1667–1743), bishop of S. Asaph and principal of Jesus College, Oxford". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "LEWIS, ERASMUS (1670-1754), writer of 'news-letters' and holder of posts under the Government". Welsh Biography Online. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "JONES, THOMAS (1648?-1713), of London and Shrewsbury, almanack maker, bookseller, printer, and publisher". Welsh Biography Online. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "OWEN , DAVID ('Dafydd y Garreg Wen'; 1711/12-1741), harpist". Welsh Biography Online. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
- ^ Evan Gilbert Wright. "HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648-1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist". Welsh Biography Online. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 25 June 2018.