This article is about the particular significance of the year 1705 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 Bishop of St Asaph – William Beveridge Bishop of St Davids – George Bull (consecrated 29 April)
Events 29 April - George Bull is consecrated Bishop of St David's. May–June - In the 1705 English general election, Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, becomes MP for Anglesey, and Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, is MP for Monmouth Boroughs. date unknown - Edward Brereton is replaced as MP for Denbigh after having offended the local gentry.
Arts and literature New books Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest Thomas Edwardes - Diocesan Episcopacy proved from Holy Scripture Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published) Walter Morgan - The Parson's Jewel
Births 6 May - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763) date unknown David Evans, Canon of St Asaph (d. 1788) Dafydd Nicolas, poet (d. 1774)
Deaths August - William Richards, author of Wallography, or the Britton described date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65
See also 1705 in Scotland
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