1713 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1713 to Wales and its people.

← 1712 1711 1710 1709 1708 1713 in Wales → 1714 1715 1716 1717 1718
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1713 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• January - On the death of John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery (see Deaths), the Golden Grove estate in Carmarthenshire is inherited by a cousin, John Vaughan (1693–1765),[1] who would rebuild Gelli Aur mansion.
• April - As a result of the death of Edmund Meyrick, a large bequest is left to Jesus College, Oxford, for scholarships for students from Wales.[2]
• 21 July - Lady Anne Vaughan, heiress of the Earl of Carbery, marries Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton.[3]
• 12 November - Following the general election, Sir Humphrey Mackworth is replaced as MP for Cardiganshire by the Whig Thomas Johnes the elder, after a scandal involving the collapse of his Company of Mine Adventures; in the same year, forms the Company of Mineral Manufacturers which remains in business for only six years.

Arts and literature

New books

Births

• 21 March - Francis Lewis, merchant, signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence (died 1803)[4]
• 1 August - Richard Wilson, painter (died 1782)[5]
• December - Josiah Tucker, economist (died 1799)[6]
• date unknown - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet (died 1777)[7]

Deaths

• 12 January - John Vaughan, 3rd Earl of Carbery, owner of the Golden Grove estate in Carmarthenshire, 73[8]
• 24 April - Edmund Meyrick, priest and educational benefactor, 77
• 15 November - Catherine Philipps (nėe Darcy) of Picton Castle, second wife of Sir Erasmus Philipps, 3rd Baronet,[9] and granddaughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield
• 31 December - Edward Proger, politician, 92 or 95[10]

See also

• 1713 in Scotland

References

1. David W. Howell (1986). Patriarchs and Parasites: The Gentry of South-west Wales in the Eighteenth Century. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-0929-2.
2. Cambrian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repertory. proprietors. 1832. pp. 248.
3. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 45, p.155. Oxford University Press, 2004
4. "LEWIS, Francis, (1713-1803)". The Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress.
5. John Edward Steegman and Iorwerth Peate. "Wilson, Richard (1713-1782), landscape painter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
6. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tucker, Josiah" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
7. Jenkins, Dr. David. "Glynne family, of Hawarden, Flints.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 13 August 2007.
8. James Frederick Rees. "Vaughan family, of Golden Grove". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
9. Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales, from the earliesr times to the present day, 1541-1895, comprising lists of the representatives, chronologically arranged under counties, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, together with particulars of the various contested elections, double returns and petitions. Cornell University Library. Brecknock : Priv. Print. for the author by E. Davis and Bell.
10. Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D., F.S.A.. "Proger (Progers, Proger) Edward". Welsh Biography Online. The National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 January 2011.