1711 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1711 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 – Philip Bisse

Events

• 23 August - Baptist minister Rev Abel Morgan is seen off by his congregation at Rhydwilim prior to embarking for a future in America.
• 23 September - Christmas Samuel is ordained at the request of his congregation at Panteg.
• unknown date
• Thomas Durston begins printing Welsh language books at Shrewsbury.
• Newtown Square Friends Meeting House is founded by Welsh immigrants in the Great Valley of Pennsylvania.
• Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, becomes Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire.

Arts and literature

New books

• Jonathan Edwards - A Vindication of the Doctrine of Original Sin from the exceptions of Dr. Daniel Whitby
• William Jones - Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones ac differentias
• Y Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin y Cydymaith Goreu: Yn y TÅ· a'r Stafell

Births

• approximate date
• , hymn-writer (died 1777)
• Josiah Owen, Presbyterian minister and controversialist (died 1755)
• Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader (died 1790)

Deaths

• December - unnamed wife and son of Rev Abel Morgan (see Events), both of whom died on board ship during the voyage from Wales to Pennsylvania.

See also

• 1711 in Scotland

References