This article is about the particular significance of the year 1716 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 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 TylerFrom: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014 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
See also 1716 in Scotland
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