1700 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1700 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- date unknown
- Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly.[1]
- Evan Evans travels from Wales to become rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia[2]
- The Gower family immigrates from Worcestershire into Wales.[3]
Arts and literature
New books
- John Jones – The Mysteries of Opium Revealed[4]
- David Maurice[5]
- Arweiniwr cartrefol i'r iawn a'r buddiol dderbyniad o Swperyr Arglwydd
- The Promised Reed; a sermon preach'd … for the support of weak Christians
Births
- 8 March – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician (died 1731)[6]
- May – Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, of Leeswood Hall, Flintshire, landowner and politician (died 1756)[7]
- date unknown
- John Jones, clergyman and controversialist (died 1770)[8]
- Benjamin Meredith, Baptist minister (died 1749)[9]
- Guto Nyth Brân (Griffith Morgan), legendary athlete (died 1737)[10]
- probable
- John Edwards (Siôn y Potiau), poet (died 1776)[11]
- Lewis Evans, surveyor (died 1756)[12]
Deaths
- 21 January – Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, politician, 70/71[13]
- 15 March – Hugh Owen, independent minister[14]
- 11 July – Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Gray's Inn, 65/66[15]
- 19 July – John Evans, Puritan clergyman and teacher, 51/52
- 15 September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, about 50 (injuries from a fall)[16]
- 16 December – Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox)[17]
- probable – Owen Wynne, lawyer and civil servant, about 48[18]
See also
References
- T. A. Glenn, Merion in the Welsh Tract with sketches of the townships of Haverford and Radnor : historical and genealogical collections concerning the Welsh barony in the province of Pennsylvania, settled by the Cymric Quakers in 1682; published 1896.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Evans Evan; (1671-1721), cleric and missioner in Pennsylvania". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Gower, Sir Erasmus (1742-1814); admiral". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Jones, John (1645-1709), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- John James Jones. "Maurice, David (1626-1702), cleric and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1906), Complete Baronetage volume 5 (1707–1800), 5, Exeter: William Pollard and Co, retrieved 8 April 2019
- Stephens, John. "Jones, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15029. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Nansi Ceridwen Jones. "Meredith, Benjamin (1700-1749), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Morgan, Griffith ('Guto Nyth-brân'; 1700-1737), a fabulous cross-country runner". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- Garfield Hopkin Hughes. "Edwards, John ('Siôn y Potiau'; 1700-1776), translator and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
- Mary Gwyneth Lewis. "Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- McClain, Molly (May 2007) [2004]. "Henry Somerset (1629–1700)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Thomas Richards. "Owen, Hugh (1639-1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth'". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- Glyn Roberts. "Williams, Sir William (1634-1700), lawyer and politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 248.
- Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The Parliamentary History of Wales. pp. 25–26, 127. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
- Arthur Herbert Dodd. "Wynne, Owen (born 1652), civil servant". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
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