1709 in Wales

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

← 1708 1707 1706 1705 1704 1709 in Wales → 1710 1711 1712 1713 1714
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
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

References

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2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
3. Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
4. Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
5. 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
6. Guides and Handbooks, no 2. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
7. "Bull, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
8. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Parry, David (1682-1714), scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
9. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "GAMBOLD family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
10. Mary Clement. "BEVAN, BRIDGET ('Madam Bevan'; 1698-1779), philanthropist and educationist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
11. David Williams. "MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY ( 1657-1727), industrialist and parliamentarian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
12. Griffith Milwyn Griffiths. "Foulkes, Humphrey (1673-1737), cleric and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
13. Money, D. K. "Holdsworth, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13498. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
14. Wiliam, Dafydd Wyn (2004). "Wynn, William (bap. 1709, d. 1760)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
15. David Jenkins. "GLYNNE family, of Hawarden, Flints". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
16. "WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709-1784), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
17. Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Herbert, Henry (1654-1709)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
18. "HERBERT, Sir James (c.1644-1709), of Coldbrook Park, Mon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
19. Thomas Jones. "LHUYD, EDWARD (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
20. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "JONES, JOHN (1645-1709), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
21. David Jenkins. "MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.