1709 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1709 to Wales and its people.

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Decades:	1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1709 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

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 South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke^[1][3]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Evans^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Fleetwood^[6]
• Bishop of St Davids – George Bull^[7]

Events

• 19 July - David Parry is appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in succession to Edward Lhuyd.^[8]
• 1 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.^[9]
• date unknown
  • Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) takes charge of a school at Laugharne.^[10]
  • The "Company of Mine Adventures", headed by Humphrey Mackworth, goes bankrupt.^[11]
  • Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.)^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• Edward Holdsworth - The mouse-trap; or, The Welsh engagement with the mice (a mock-heroic satire on the Welsh people, published anonymously)^[13]

Births

• March - William Wynn, clergyman and poet (died 1760)^[14]
• 11 June - Philip David, Independent minister (died 1787)
• date unknown
  • Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (died 1730)^[15]
  • Joseph Hoare, academic (died 1802)
  • David Williams, schoolmaster (died 1784)^[16]

Deaths

• 22 January - Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, politician, 54^[17]
• 6 June - James Herbert, politician, about 55^[18]
• 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist and antiquary, 49^[19]
• 22 August - John Jones, clergyman and physician, 63/64^[20]
• August - Huw Morus, poet, 86/87^[21]

See also

• 1709 in Scotland