1719 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1719 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
[edit]- 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[8]
Events
[edit]- March – The 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot is raised by Colonel Edmund Fielding as Edmund Fielding's Regiment of Foot.[9]
- date unknown
- The Davies brothers of Bersham begin work on the wrought-iron gates at Chirk Castle.[10]
- The first permanent legal printing press in Wales is established at Adpar by Isaac Carter of Carmarthenshire. It is believed that its first two publications are Cân o Senn i’w hen Feistr Tobacco by Alban Thomas and Cân ar Fesur Triban ynghylch Cydwybod a’i Chynheddfau.[11]
- On the death without heirs of Sir John Wynne, the Wynnstay estate passes to Jane Thelwall, the great-granddaughter of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet.
- The Welsh Charity School in London moves to Ailesbury Chapel, Clerkenwell, where it remains until about 1721.[12]
Arts and literature
[edit]New books
[edit]- Christmas Samuel – Catecism o'r Scrythur
- Eglurhad o Gatechism Byrraf y Gymanfa[13]
- Browne Willis – Survey of Llandaff[14]
Births
[edit]- February – William Edwards, clergyman and bridge engineer (d. 1789)[15]
- 22 February – Joshua Thomas, writer and Particular Baptist minister (d. 1797)[16]
- 17 June – Joshua Parry, nonconformist minister and writer (d. 1776)[17]
- 30 November – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, future Princess of Wales (d. 1772)[18]
- date unknown – Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1769)[19]
Deaths
[edit]- 11 January – Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet, 90[20]
- 4 April – Thomas Powys, judge, 70/71[21]
- 19 June – Captain Howell Davis, pirate, ca 29
- 11 October – Samuel Jones, Dissenting minister and tutor[22]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London; New York: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
- ^ West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1916. p. 167.
- ^ "Hoadly, Benjamin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13375. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ 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
- ^ Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
- ^ Davies, J. D. "Ottley, Adam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63755. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "41st (the Welsh) Regiment of Foot". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 23 February 2007. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ Wales Tourist Board (August 1974). Castles and historic places in Wales. The Board. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-900784-21-7.
- ^ "About Adpar". Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
- ^ Temple, Philip, ed. (2008). "Clerkenwell Green". South and East Clerkenwell. Survey of London. Vol. 46. New Haven, London: English Heritage. pp. 86–114. ISBN 9780300137279.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Carter, Isaac". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Parry, George". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Edward Ivor Williams. "Edwards, William (1719-1789), Independent minister, and architect". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ "Thomas, Joshua (1719-1797), Baptist minister and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins; Emyr Wyn Jones. "Parry, Joshua (1719-1776), Nonconformist minister, and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Williamson, David (1986). Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain. Salem House. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-88162-213-3.
- ^ Herbert Johnes Lloyd-Johnes. "Lloyd family, of Peterwell". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ "POWYS, Sir Thomas (c.1649-1719), of Henley, nr. Ludlow, Salop and Lilford cum Wigsthorpe, Northants". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Samuel ([1681?]-1719), Dissenting Academy tutor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2019.