1705 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
• Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke[1][3]
• Bishop of Bangor – John Evans[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – William Beaw[4]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Beveridge[5]
• Bishop of St Davids – George Bull (consecrated 29 April)[6]

Events

• 29 April - George Bull is consecrated Bishop of St David's.[7]
• 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.[8]
• date unknown - Edward Brereton is replaced as MP for Denbigh after having offended the local gentry.[9]

Arts and literature

New books

• Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
• Thomas Edwardes - Diocesan Episcopacy proved from Holy Scripture[10]
• Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published)
• Walter Morgan - The Parson's Jewel[11]

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)[12]
  • Dafydd Nicolas, poet (d. 1774)

Deaths

• August - William Richards, author of Wallography, or the Britton described[13]
• date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65

See also

• 1705 in Scotland

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
3. Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
4. Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
5. Grosart, Rev. A. B. (1885). Dictionary of National Biography. pp. 447–448.
6. "Bull, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
7. 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.
8. Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1878). Parliamentary Papers. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 8.
9. David Hayton; Eveline Cruickshanks; Stuart Handley (2002). The House of Commons, 1690-1715. Cambridge University Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-521-78318-7.
10. Dafydd Rhys ap Thomas. "Edwardes, Thomas (1652-1721), cleric and Coptic scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
11. Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan, Walter (fl. 1695), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
12. Griffith, Robert David (1959). "Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
13. "Richards, William (1643-1705)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.