This article is about the particular significance of the year 1706 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 – William Beaw (until 10 February); John Tyler (from 30 June)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 Bishop of St Asaph – William Beveridge Bishop of St Davids – George Bull
Events 18 January - Erasmus Saunders is made Rector of Helmdon, Northamptonshire. 17 November - Thomas Mansel, future Baron Mansel, becomes 5th Baronet Mansel of Margam on the death of his father Edward Mansel. date unknown Crickhowell Bridge rebuilt in stone. At Esgair Hir mines, Cardiganshire, "The Governour and Company of the Mine-Adventurers of England [the company owned by Humphrey Mackworth] allow £20 per annum for a Charity-School for the Children of the miners and workmen belonging to the said Company. The said Company also give £30 yearly to a Minister to read prayers, preach, and catechise the children." Charity-Schools set up in Wales from 1699 to 1737, as reported in the Periodical Accounts of Charity Schools, issued by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, with additional extracts from the Minute Books and Correspondence of the Society. Ellis Pugh, Quaker colonist of Pennsylvania, returns to Wales for a two-year stay.
Arts and literature New books William Jones - Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos
Births date unknown Frederick Cornewall, MP for Montgomery Boroughs 1771-1774 (died 1788) William Hopkins, clergyman and author (died 1786) Anna Williams, poet (died 1783)
Deaths 10 February - William Beaw, Bishop of Llandaff, 90 7 October - Richard Lewis of Van 7 November - Daniel Price, Dean of St Asaph (date of birth unknown)"Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time" Edwards, E. pp177/8: Wrexham, John Painter, 1801 17 November - Sir Edward Mansel, 4th Baronet, 69/70
See also 1706 in Scotland
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