1718 in Wales
List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
New books
Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau [ 13]
Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published)[ 14]
Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco [ 15]
Births
July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773)[ 16]
date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794)[ 17]
Deaths
17 February - Prince George William of Wales , the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, aged three months
30 April - Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet ,[ 18]
1 May - Robert Daniell , coloniser of The Carolinas , 71 or 72[ 19]
26 December - Mary Steele , wife of Sir Richard Steele , 40[ 20]
date unknown
Sir Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, former High Sheriff of Denbighshire[ 21]
William Evans, dissenting minister[ 22]
Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirk[ 23]
See also
References
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^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales . Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146 .
^ Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 . London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707 .
^ West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales . W. Spurrell and son. 1916. p. 167.
^ "Hoadly, Benjamin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/13375 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ 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
^ Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath . p. 162.
^ Davies, J. D. "Ottley, Adam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/63755 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Van der Kiste, John (1997) George II and Queen Caroline . Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-1321-5
^ Breverton, Terry (2003). The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers . Sain Tathan: Glyndwr Publishing. ISBN 1-903529-09-3 .
^ Enid Pierce Roberts. "EVANS, THEOPHILUS" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 19 February 2017 .
^ Sir William Llewelyn Davies. "CARTER , ISAAC" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017 .
^ Meic Stephens (1998). Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru . University of Wales Press. p. 805. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1 .
^ National Library of Wales; M. Gwyneth Lewis (1977). The printed maps of Radnorshire, 1578-1900 . The Library. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-901833-81-5 .
^ Trysorfa y plant: cyhoeddiad misol i ieuenctyd (in Welsh). P.M. Evans. 1913. p. 35.
^ William Griffith. "JONES, WILLIAM" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017 .
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "WILLIAMS, Sir HUGH" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017 .
^ LEAVES OF A STUNTED SHRUB Vol Two . Richard Baldwin Cook. 2009. pp. 1–3. ISBN 978-0-9791257-6-8 .
^ George William Logan (1874). A Record of the Logan Family of Charleston, South Carolina . pp. 16 .
^ George Atherton Aitken (1968). The Life of Richard Steele . Ardent Media. p. 192.
^ A. H. Dodd . "BROUGHTON family of Marchwiel, Denbs." . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017 .
^ Thomas Richards. "EVANS, WILLIAM" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017 .
^ A. H. Dodd. "MYDDELTON" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017 .