1706 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1706 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] (until 10 February);[5] John Tyler (from 30 June)[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Beveridge[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – George Bull[8]

Events

• 18 January - Erasmus Saunders is made Rector of Helmdon, Northamptonshire.[9]
• 17 November - Thomas Mansel, future Baron Mansel, becomes 5th Baronet Mansel of Margam on the death of his father Edward Mansel.
• date unknown
  • Crickhowell Bridge rebuilt in stone.[10]
  • At Esgair Hir mines, Cardiganshire, "The Governour and Company of the Mine-Adventurers of England [the company owned by Humphrey Mackworth] allow £20 per annum for a Charity-School for the Children of the miners and workmen belonging to the said Company. The said Company also give £30 yearly to a Minister to read prayers, preach, and catechise the children."[11]
  • Ellis Pugh, Quaker colonist of Pennsylvania, returns to Wales for a two-year stay.[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• William Jones - Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos[13]

Births

• date unknown
  • Frederick Cornewall, MP for Montgomery Boroughs 1771-1774 (died 1788)[14]
  • William Hopkins, clergyman and author (died 1786)[15]
  • Anna Williams, poet (died 1783)[16]

Deaths

• 10 February - William Beaw, Bishop of Llandaff, 90[5]
• 7 October - Richard Lewis of Van[17]
• 7 November - Daniel Price, Dean of St Asaph (date of birth unknown)[18]
• 17 November - Sir Edward Mansel, 4th Baronet, 69/70[19]

See also

• 1706 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. Nicolson, William (1985). The London diaries of William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle, 1702-1718. Oxford New York: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press. p. 364. ISBN 9780198224044.
6. From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
7. Grosart, Rev. A. B. (1885). Dictionary of National Biography. pp. 447–448.
8. "Bull, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
9. David Williams. "Saunders, Erasmus (1670-1724), divine". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
10. Benjamin Clarke (1852). The British gazetteer: political, commercial, ecclesiastical, and historical; showing the distances of each place from London and Derby--gentleman's seats--populations ...&c. Illustrated by county maps, with all the railways accurately laid down. Published (for the proprietors) by H.G. Collins. pp. 574.
11. "Sir John Philipps of Picton, the SPCK and the Charity School Movement in Wales 1699-1737". GENUKI. Retrieved 7 March 2019. Charity-Schools set up in Wales from 1699 to 1737, as reported in the Periodical Accounts of Charity Schools, issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, with additional extracts from the Minute Books and Correspondence of the Society.
12. Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families: From The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Genealogical Publishing Company. 1982. p. 717.
13. David E. Smith (June 1958). History of Mathematics. Courier Corporation. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-486-20430-7.
14. Namier, Sir Lewis (1964). "Cornewall, Frederick (1706-1788)". In Namier, Sir Lewis; Brooke, John (eds.). The House of Commons 1754–1790. The History of Parliament Trust.
15. Nansi Ceridwen Jones. "Hopkins, William (1706-1786) cleric and author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
16. Gwyn Jones. "Williams, Anna (1706-1783), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
17. Henry John Randall. "LEWIS family, of Van, Glam.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
18. "Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time" Edwards, E. pp177/8: Wrexham, John Painter, 1801
19. John Burke (1838). A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, by J. and J.B. Burke. p. 339.