1709 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1709 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 19 July - David Parry is appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in succession to Edward Lhuyd.[1]
- 1 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.[2]
- date unknown
- Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) takes charge of a school at Laugharne.[3]
- The "Company of Mine Adventures", headed by Humphrey Mackworth, goes bankrupt.[4]
- Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.)[5]
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)[6]
Births
- March - William Wynn, clergyman and poet (died 1760)[7]
- 11 June - Philip David, Independent minister (died 1787)
- date unknown
Deaths
- 22 January - Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, politician, 54[10]
- 6 June - James Herbert, politician, about 55[11]
- 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist and antiquary, 49[12]
- 22 August - John Jones, clergyman and physician, 63/64[13]
- August - Huw Morus, poet, 86/87[14]
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See also
References
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Parry, David (1682-1714), scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "GAMBOLD family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- Mary Clement. "BEVAN, BRIDGET ('Madam Bevan'; 1698-1779), philanthropist and educationist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- David Williams. "MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY ( 1657-1727), industrialist and parliamentarian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- Griffith Milwyn Griffiths. "Foulkes, Humphrey (1673-1737), cleric and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- 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.)
- Wiliam, Dafydd Wyn (2004). "Wynn, William (bap. 1709, d. 1760)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
- David Jenkins. "GLYNNE family, of Hawarden, Flints". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- "WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709-1784), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/herbert-sir-james-1644-1709
- Thomas Jones. "LHUYD, EDWARD (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "JONES, JOHN (1645-1709), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
- David Jenkins. "MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
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