1716 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1716 to Wales and its people.

← 1715 1714 1713 1712 1711 1716 in Wales → 1717 1718 1719 1720 1721
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1716 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George II)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach

Events

• January John Evans, Bishop of Bangor, is translated to Meath in Ireland, leaving Wales without any Welsh-speaking bishops for a prolonged period.[1]
• 27 July Griffith Jones becomes rector of Llanddowror, under the patronage of his brother-in-law Sir John Philipps, 4th Baronet.[2]
• 9 November – In London, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son, Prince Augustus George of Wales.[3]

Arts and literature

New books

• Myles Davies - Athenae Britannicae (six vols., London)[4]
• Welsh translation of works by Tertullian and Cyprian, probably by John Morgan of Matchin[5]

Births

• date unknown - Henry Owen, theologian (died 1795)
• probable - Howel Davies, Methodist clergyman (died 1770)[6]

Deaths

• 26 January - Daniel Williams, theologian, 72?
• 8 May - Thomas Allgood I, originator of the japanning industry at Pontypool and Usk[7]
• 29 September - David Edwards, Independent minister, 56[8]
• date unknown - Howell Powell, Congregational minister[9]

See also

• 1716 in Scotland

References

1. Richard Brown (4 January 2002). Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850. Routledge. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-134-98270-7.
2. Jeremy Gregory; Jeffrey Scott Chamberlain (2003). The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800. Boydell Press. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-85115-897-6.
3. H. Eugene Lehman (13 October 2011). Lives of England's Reigning and Consort Queens. Author House. p. 539. ISBN 978-1-4634-3055-9.
4. John James Jones. "DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662-1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
5. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORGAN JOHN ('John Morgan of Matchin', 1688? - 1734?),". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
6. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "DAVIES, HOWEL (c.1716-1770), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
7. Robert Stephen. "ALLGOOD family, of Pontypool and Usk". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
8. Thomas Eurig Davies. "EDWARDS, DAVID (1660-1716), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
9. John Dyfnallt Owen. "POWELL, HOWELL (d. 1716), Congregational minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.