1705 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1705 to Wales and its people.

← 1704 1703 1702 1701 1700 1705 in Wales → 1706 1707 1708 1709 1710
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1705 in England Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 29 April - George Bull is consecrated Bishop of St David's.[1]
• May–June - In the 1705 English general election, Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, becomes MP for Anglesey, and Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, is MP for Monmouth Boroughs.[2]
• date unknown - Edward Brereton is replaced as MP for Denbigh after having offended the local gentry.[3]

Arts and literature

New books

• Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
• Thomas Edwardes - Diocesan Episcopacy proved from Holy Scripture[4]
• Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published)
• Walter Morgan - The Parson's Jewel[5]

Births

• 6 May - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763)
• date unknown
  • David Evans, Canon of St Asaph (d. 1788)[6]
  • Dafydd Nicolas, poet (d. 1774)

Deaths

• date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65

See also

• 1705 in Scotland

References

1. John Lemprière (1810). Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical, of the Life and Character, Labors and Actions of Eminent Persons. E. Sargeant. p. 247.
2. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1878). Parliamentary Papers. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 8.
3. David Hayton; Eveline Cruickshanks; Stuart Handley (2002). The House of Commons, 1690-1715. Cambridge University Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-521-78318-7.
4. Dafydd Rhys ap Thomas. "Edwardes, Thomas (1652-1721), cleric and Coptic scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
5. Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan, Walter (fl. 1695), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
6. Griffith, Robert David (2007). "Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 March 2009.