1700 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1700 to Wales and its people.

← 1699 1698 1697 1696 1695 1700 in Wales → 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705
Centuries:	15th 16th 17th 18th 19th
Decades:	1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1700 in England Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• date unknown
  • Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly.[1]
  • The Gower family immigrates from Worcestershire into Wales.[2]

Arts and literature

New books

• John Jones – The Mysteries of Opium Revealed[3]
• David Maurice[4]
  • Arweiniwr cartrefol i'r iawn a'r buddiol dderbyniad o Swperyr Arglwydd
  • The Promised Reed; a sermon preach'd … for the support of weak Christians

Births

• 8 March – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician (died 1731)[5]
• May – Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, of Leeswood Hall, Flintshire, landowner and politician (died 1756)[6]
• date unknown
  • John Jones, clergyman and controversialist (died 1770)[7]
  • Benjamin Meredith, Baptist minister (died 1749)[8]
  • Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete (died 1737)
• probable
  • John Edwards (Siôn y Potiau), poet (died 1776)
  • Lewis Evans, surveyor (died 1756)[9]

Deaths

• 21 January – Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, politician, 70/71[10]
• 15 March – Hugh Owen, independent minister[11]
• 11 July – Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Gray's Inn, 65/66[12]
• 19 July – John Evans, Puritan clergyman and teacher, 51/52
• 15 September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, about 50 (injuries from a fall)[13]
• 16 December – Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox)[14]
• probable – Owen Wynne, lawyer and civil servant, about 48[15]

See also

• 1700 in Scotland

References

1. T. A. Glenn, Merion in the Welsh Tract with sketches of the townships of Haverford and Radnor : historical and genealogical collections concerning the Welsh barony in the province of Pennsylvania, settled by the Cymric Quakers in 1682; published 1896.
2. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Gower, Sir Erasmus (1742-1814); admiral". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
3. Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Jones, John (1645-1709), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
4. John James Jones. "Maurice, David (1626-1702), cleric and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
5. Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
6. Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1906), Complete Baronetage volume 5 (1707–1800), 5, Exeter: William Pollard and Co, retrieved 8 April 2019
7. Stephens, John. "Jones, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15029. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
8. Nansi Ceridwen Jones. "Meredith, Benjamin (1700-1749), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
9. Mary Gwyneth Lewis. "Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
10. McClain, Molly (May 2007) [2004]. "Henry Somerset (1629–1700)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
11. Thomas Richards. "Owen, Hugh (1639-1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth'". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
12. Glyn Roberts. "Williams, Sir William (1634-1700), lawyer and politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
13. Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 248.
14. Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The Parliamentary History of Wales. pp. 25–26, 127. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
15. Arthur Herbert Dodd. "Wynne, Owen (born 1652), civil servant". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.