1700 in Wales

List of events

* 1699
* 1698
* 1697
* 1696
* 1695

|  | 1700

Wales |

* 1701
* 1702
* 1703
* 1704
* 1705

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Centuries:|

* 15th
* 16th
* 17th
* 18th
* 19th

Decades:|

* 1680s
* 1690s
* 1700s
* 1710s
* 1720s

See also:| List of years in Wales
Timeline of Welsh history

1700 in

England
Scotland
Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1700 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

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* Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield[1]
* Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke[1][2]

* Bishop of Bangor – Humphrey Humphreys[3]
* Bishop of Llandaff – William Beaw[3]
* Bishop of St Asaph – Edward Jones[3]
* Bishop of St Davids – vacant

## Events

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* date unknown
* Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly.[4]
* Evan Evans travels from Wales to become rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia[5]
* The Gower family immigrates from Worcestershire into Wales.[6]

## Arts and literature

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### New books

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* John Jones – The Mysteries of Opium Revealed[7]
* David Maurice[8]
* 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

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* 8 March – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician (died 1731)[9]
* May – Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, of Leeswood Hall, Flintshire, landowner and politician (died 1756)[10]
* date unknown
* John Jones, clergyman and controversialist (died 1770)[11]
* Benjamin Meredith, Baptist minister (died 1749)[12]
* Guto Nyth Brân (Griffith Morgan), legendary athlete (died 1737)[13]
* probable
* John Edwards (Siôn y Potiau), poet (died 1776)[14]
* Lewis Evans, surveyor (died 1756)[15]

## Deaths

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* 21 January – Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, politician, 70/71[16]
* 15 March – Hugh Owen, independent minister[17]
* 11 July – Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Gray's Inn, 65/66[18]
* 19 July – John Evans, Puritan clergyman and teacher, 51/52
* 15 September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, about 50 (injuries from a fall)[19]
* 16 December – Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox)[20]
* probable – Owen Wynne, lawyer and civil servant, about 48[21]

## See also

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* 1700 in Scotland

## References

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1. ^ a b J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. ^ Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25\. ISBN 9781134982707.
3. ^ a b c Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Evans Evan; (1671-1721), cleric and missioner in Pennsylvania". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
6. ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Gower, Sir Erasmus (1742-1814); admiral". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
7. ^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis. "Jones, John (1645-1709), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
8. ^ John James Jones. "Maurice, David (1626-1702), cleric and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
9. ^ Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan family, of Tredegar Park, Monmouth". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
10. ^ Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1906), Complete Baronetage volume 5 (1707–1800), vol. 5, Exeter: William Pollard and Co, retrieved 8 April 2019
11. ^ 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.)
12. ^ Nansi Ceridwen Jones. "Meredith, Benjamin (1700-1749), Baptist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
13. ^ 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.
14. ^ 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.
15. ^ Mary Gwyneth Lewis. "Evans, Lewis (c.1700-1756), cartographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
16. ^ 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.)
17. ^ Thomas Richards. "Owen, Hugh (1639-1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth'". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
18. ^ Glyn Roberts. "Williams, Sir William (1634-1700), lawyer and politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
19. ^ Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 248.
20. ^ Williams, William Retlaw (1895). The Parliamentary History of Wales. pp. 25–26, 127. Retrieved 17 October 2007.
21. ^ 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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