This article is about the particular significance of the year 1709 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 South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
Bishop of Bangor – John Evans Bishop of Llandaff – John TylerFrom: '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 Bishop of St Asaph – William Fleetwood Bishop of St Davids – George Bull
Events 19 July - David Parry is appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in succession to Edward Lhuyd. 1 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer. date unknown Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) takes charge of a school at Laugharne. The "Company of Mine Adventures", headed by Humphrey Mackworth, goes bankrupt. Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.
Arts and literature
New books Edward Holdsworth - The mouse-trap; or, The Welsh engagement with the mice (a mock-heroic satire on the Welsh people, published anonymously)
Births March - William Wynn, clergyman and poet (died 1760) 11 June - Philip David, Independent minister (died 1787) date unknown Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (died 1730) Joseph Hoare, academic (died 1802) David Williams, schoolmaster (died 1784)
Deaths 22 January - Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, politician, 54 6 June - James Herbert, politician, about 55 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist and antiquary, 49 22 August - John Jones, clergyman and physician, 63/64 August - Huw Morus, poet, 86/87
See also 1709 in Scotland
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