1709 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
• Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke

• Bishop of Bangor – John Evans
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Fleetwood
• Bishop of St Davids – George Bull

Events

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

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)

Births

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

Deaths

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

See also

• 1709 in Scotland

References