1716 in Wales

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby
• Bishop of Bangor – John Evans (until January) Benjamin Hoadly (from 18 March)
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley

Events

• January John Evans, Bishop of Bangor, is translated to Meath in Ireland, leaving Wales without any Welsh-speaking bishops for a prolonged period.
• 27 July Griffith Jones becomes rector of Llanddowror, under the patronage of his brother-in-law Sir John Philipps, 4th Baronet.
• 9 November – In London, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son, Prince Augustus George of Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

• Myles Davies – Athenae Britannicae (six vols., London)
• Welsh translation of works by Tertullian and Cyprian, probably by John Morgan of Matchin

Births

• date unknown – Henry Owen, theologian (died 1795)
• probable – Howel Davies, Methodist clergyman (died 1770)

Deaths

• 26 January – Daniel Williams, theologian, 72?
• 8 May – Thomas Allgood I, originator of the japanning industry at Pontypool and Usk
• 29 June – Richard Lucas, clergyman and writer, 65
• 29 September – David Edwards, Independent minister, 56
• date unknown – Howell Powell, Congregational minister

References

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