This article is about the particular significance of the year 1716 to Wales and its people.
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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
- 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[9]
Events
edit- January John Evans, Bishop of Bangor, is translated to Meath in Ireland, leaving Wales without any Welsh-speaking bishops for a prolonged period.[10]
- 27 July Griffith Jones becomes rector of Llanddowror, under the patronage of his brother-in-law Sir John Philipps, 4th Baronet.[11]
- 9 November – In London, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son, Prince Augustus George of Wales.[12]
Arts and literature
editNew books
edit- Myles Davies – Athenae Britannicae (six vols., London)[13]
- Welsh translation of works by Tertullian and Cyprian, probably by John Morgan of Matchin[14]
Births
edit- date unknown – Henry Owen, theologian (died 1795)
- probable – Howel Davies, Methodist clergyman (died 1770)[15]
Deaths
edit- 26 January – Daniel Williams, theologian, 72?
- 8 May – Thomas Allgood I, originator of the japanning industry at Pontypool and Usk[16]
- 29 June – Richard Lucas, clergyman and writer, 65[17]
- 29 September – David Edwards, Independent minister, 56[18]
- date unknown – Howell Powell, Congregational minister[19]
See also
editReferences
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 England 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.
- ^ Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
- ^ "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.)
- ^ Richard Brown (4 January 2002). Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850. Routledge. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-134-98270-7.
- ^ Jeremy Gregory; Jeffrey Scott Chamberlain (2003). The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800. Boydell Press. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-85115-897-6.
- ^ H. Eugene Lehman (13 October 2011). Lives of England's Reigning and Consort Queens. Author House. p. 539. ISBN 978-1-4634-3055-9.
- ^ Jones, John James. "DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662-1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORGAN JOHN ('John Morgan of Matchin', 1688? - 1734?),". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "DAVIES, HOWEL (c.1716-1770), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ Robert Stephen. "ALLGOOD family, of Pontypool and Usk". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ "Richard Lucas (LCS677R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Thomas Eurig Davies. "EDWARDS, DAVID (1660-1716), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- ^ John Dyfnallt Owen. "POWELL, HOWELL (d. 1716), Congregational minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.