1707 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1707 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 – John Tyler[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Beveridge[6]
• Bishop of St Davids – George Bull[7]

Events

• 1 May – The Acts of Union come into force, making Wales officially a part of the Kingdom of Great Britain.[8] The newly established Parliament of Great Britain has a total of 27 MPs representing Welsh constituencies, as opposed to 45 for Scotland and 486 for England.[9]
• December – Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, is accused of having appropriated building materials from Beaumaris Castle for use on his own estates.[10]

Arts and literature

New books

• Egwyddorion y Grefydd Gristianogawl[11]
• Godidawgrwydd Rhinwedd[11]
• Edward Lhuyd – Archaeologia Britannica: an Account of the Languages, Histories and Customs of Great Britain, from Travels through Wales, Cornwall, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland. Vol. 1: Glossography[12] Lhuyd's work was compiled with assistance from Moses Williams,[13] and was dedicated to Thomas Mansel, 1st Baron Mansel.[14]

Births

• 1 February – Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of the future George II of Great Britain (died 1751)[15]
• April? – Griffith Hughes, naturalist and author (died c.1758)[16]
• 1 September – John Salusbury, explorer and diarist (died 1762)[17]
• 30 September – Richard Trevor, Bishop of St David's (died 1771)[18]
• probable
  • Thomas Allgood II, heir to the Pontypool japanning works, who would make further improvements to the process[19]
  • William Vaughan of Corsygedol, politician (died 1775)[20]

Deaths

• 14 December – Humphrey Edwin, London merchant and owner of the Llanmihangel estate, 65[21]
• date unknown – Love Parry, ancestor of the Jones-Parry Baronets, 53[22]

See also

• 1707 in Scotland

References

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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; New York: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
4. Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
5. 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
6. Grosart, Rev. A. B. (1885). Dictionary of National Biography. pp. 447–448.
7. "Bull, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
8. "Quick Guide – The Constitution – Wales in the United Kingdom" (PDF). Assembly Wales. April 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
9. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 291. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
10. Great Britain. Public Record Office (1874). 1702-1707. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. pp. 559–560.
11. Welsh Bibliographical Society (1966). The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society. Welsh Bibliographical Society. p. 132.
12. Campbell, Lyle; Poser, William J. (2007). Language Classification. History and Method. Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-521-88005-3.
13. Geraint Bowen. "WILLIAMS, MOSES ( 1685-1742), cleric and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
14. William Llewelyn Davies. "MANSEL family, of Oxwich, Penrice, and Margam abbey, Glam". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
15. Weir, Alison (1989). Britain's royal families : the complete genealogy. London: Bodley Head. p. 278. ISBN 9781446449110.
16. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Hughes, Griffith (fl. 1707-1750), cleric and naturalist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
17. Rompkey, Ronald (1974). "Salusbury, John". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. III (1741–1770) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
18. "TREVOR family, of Trevalun, Denbs., Plas Têg, Flints., and Glynde, Sussex". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
19. Robert Stephen. "ALLGOOD family, of Pontypool and Usk". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
20. "VAUGHAN, William (?1707-75), of Corsygedol, Merion". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
21. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "EDWIN family, of Llanfihangel or 'Llanmihangel', Glam". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
22. Thomas Richards. "PARRY (and JONES-PARRY) family, Madryn, Llŷn". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 June 2018.