1718 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 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 Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby

• Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley

Events

• February - Prince George William of Wales falls ill (later diagnosed as a heart disease); his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are allowed by King George I to visit him at Kensington Palace, despite having been banished from the royal presence a few months earlier.
• 11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates. Davis would subsequently capture another Welsh sailor, Bartholomew Roberts, and turn him to piracy.
• 9 November - Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's.
• date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire.

Arts and literature

New books

• Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau
• Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published)
• Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco

Births

• July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773)
• date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794)

Deaths

• 17 February - Prince George William of Wales, the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, aged three months
• 30 April - Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet,
• 1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72
• 26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40
• date unknown
• Sir Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, former High Sheriff of Denbighshire
• William Evans, dissenting minister
• Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirk

See also

• 1718 in Scotland

References