1714 in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1714 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Other Windsor, 2nd Earl of Plymouth (until 21 October); Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley (from 21 October); ^{[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 Fleetwood (until 11 January)^[6] John Wynne (from 11 January)^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley

Events

• 8 May - Adam Ottley, Bishop of St David's, complains that Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) has been "going about preaching on week days in Churches, Churchyards, and sometimes on the mountains, to hundreds of auditors".^[8]
• 1 August - George I of Great Britain becomes king, and soon replaces the Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, the Earl of Plymouth with his favoured candidate, the previous incumbent, the Earl of Cholmondeley. The first bishop he appoints is John Wynne, principal of Jesus College, Oxford, who becomes Bishop of St Asaph, but does not take up his new position until the following year, preferring the academic life.^[7]
• September 27 - Prince George, son of King George I, is invested as Prince of Wales. His wife, Caroline of Ansbach, becomes the first Princess of Wales to receive the title at the same time as her husband^[9] and the first Princess of Wales for over two hundred years.
• October - The new Princess of Wales arrives in Britain with two of her children.^[10]
• date unknown
  • Erasmus Saunders marries the daughter of Humphrey Lloyd of Aberbechan.^[11]
  • Following the death of Robert Jeffreys, a descendant of George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, the last member of the Jeffreys family to reside at Acton Hall, Wrexham, the estate passes into the hands of a brother-in-law, Philip Egerton.^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• James Davies (Iaco ap Dewi) - Daily Communion with God (translation)^[13]
• Sir John Doderidge - An Historical Account of the Ancient and Modern State of the Principality of Wales...

Welsh language

• William Dyer - Cyfoeth i'r Cymru^[14]
• John Morgan of Matchin - Myfyrdodau bucheddol ar y pedwar peth diweddaf^[15]
• Rhys Prydderch/Christmas Samuel - Gemau Doethineb^[16]

Births

• 23 January - Howell Harris, Methodist leader (died 1773)^[17]
• March - Edward Richard, schoolmaster and poet (died 1777)^[18]
• 1 August – Richard Wilson, painter (died 1782)^[19]

Deaths

• 24 May - Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, Welsh-born landowner, 30^[20]
• 22 June - Matthew Henry, Presbyterian minister, 51
• 8 or 10 December - David Parry, scholar, assistant to Edward Lhuyd, about 30^[21]
• 31 December - John Wynne, industrialist, 64^[22]

Notes and References

1. Book: J.C. Sainty . John Sainty (civil servant) . List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd . London . 1979.
2. Book: Nicholas, Thomas . Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Genealogical Pub. Co . Baltimore . 1991 . 9780806313146 . 695.
3. Book: Brown, Richard . Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 . Routledge . London England New York, NY . 1991 . 9781134982707 . 25.
4. Book: Charles John Abbey. The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. 1887. 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. Book: Guides and Handbooks, no 2. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. 203.
7. Book: Stephen Hyde Cassan. Lives of the Bishops of Bath. 1829. 162.
8. s-JONE-GRI-1683. JONES, GRIFFITH (1683-1761), cleric and educational reformer. Mary Clement. 4 May 2018.
9. Book: Fryer, M.. Fryer, Mary Beacock. Bousfield, Arthur. Toffoli, Garry. Lives of the Princesses of Wales. Dundern Press. Toronto. 1983. 978-0-919670-69-3. 33.
10. Book: Arkell, R. L.. 1939. Caroline of Ansbach. Oxford University Press. London. 64–66.
11. s-SAUN-ERA-1670. SAUNDERS, ERASMUS (1670-1724), divine. Mary Clement. yes. 4 May 2018.
12. Web site: The History of Acton Park. Friends of Acton Park. 5 May 2018. 20 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200820113053/http://www.friendsofactonpark.co.uk/the-park/history/. dead.
13. s-DAVI-JAM-1648. DAVIES, JAMES (Iaco ap Dewi; 1648-1722). Garfield Hopkin Hughes. yes. 5 May 2018.
14. Book: William Rowlands. Cambrian Bibliography. John Pryse. 1869. 303.
15. Web site: Morgan, John (1688 - 1733/4) . Edwards . Huw M. . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access) . Oxford University Press. 2004 . 2008-04-10.
16. s-SAMU-CHR-1674. Samuel, Christmas (1674-1764), Independent minister. John Dyfnallt Owen. 6 February 2024.
17. s-HARR-HOW-1714. Harris, Howel(l) (1714-1773), religious reformer. Gomer Morgan Roberts. yes. 23 June 2019.
18. s-RICH-EDW-1714. Richard, Edward (1714-1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet. David Gwenallt Jones. yes. 23 June 2019.
19. Wilson, Richard. 62. 120–23.
20. Somerset, Henry.
21. s-PARR-DAV-1682. Parry, David (1682? - 1714), scholar. Jenkins. Robert Thomas. yes. 25 June 2018.
22. s-WYNN-JOH-1650. Wynne, John (1650–1714), industrial pioneer. yes. 1959. Jenkins. Robert Thomas. Robert Thomas Jenkins. 8 April 2009.