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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1700–1709 to
Wales and
its people .
Events
1700
1701
1702
1703
1704
Jane Kemeys marries
Sir John Tynte, 2nd Baronet , resulting in an alliance between two important families and the beginning of the Kemeys-Tynte dynasty.
July - Richard Vaughan of Corsygedol becomes Constable of
Harlech Castle .
1705
1706
Crickhowell Bridge rebuilt in stone.
Humphrey Mackworth 's company grants £20 a year towards a charity school at Esgair Hir mine in Cardiganshire, £30 a year towards a minister there, and £20 a year towards a charity school at
Neath .
1707
1708
1709
Arts and literature
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New books
1702
1703
1704
Robert Nelson - A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England
1705
Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of
Katherine Philips (posthumously published)
1706
1707
Births
1700
1701
1702
1703
1704
1705
1707
1708
1709
Deaths
1700
27 June -
Hugh Owen , Independent minister, 60?
11 July -
William Williams , Speaker of the House of Commons, 66
September –
Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet , politician
8 December -
Edward Harley , politician, 76
16 December -
Thomas Morgan (of Dderw) , politician, 36 (smallpox)
1701
1702
1703
1704
1705
1707
1708
1709
1717
20 May -
John Trevor lawyer and politician, expelled Speaker of the House of Commons, c.80
1720
1725
18 January -
Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley , Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 62
[6]
25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of
Welsh Tract Baptist Church , Delaware, USA.
[7]
29 November -
William Jones , 49, Principal of
Jesus College, Oxford .
[8]
15 December -
Francis Edwardes , politician
[9]
1790
4 March -
Samuel Hallifax , Bishop of St Asaph, 57
[10]
20 March -
Thomas Richards of Coychurch , cleric and lexicographer, 80
[11]
24 August -
John Worgan , organist and composer, 66
[12]
16 October -
Daniel Rowland , Methodist leader, c.79
[13]
5 November -
Michael Lort , clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65
[14]
References
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"Morris, Richard (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 July 2019 .
^ Bertie George Charles.
"Wogan families, Pembrokeshire" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 20 July 2019 .
^
"MORGAN, John II (1671-1720), of Tredegar, Mon" . History of Parliament Online (1690-1715). Retrieved 18 August 2018 .
^ Hayton, D. W. (2002).
"Powell, Sir Thomas, 1st Bt. (c.1665-1720)" . In Hayton, David;
Cruickshanks, Eveline ; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690-1715 . The History of Parliament Trust.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins.
"Williams, Charles (1633-1720), benefactor of his native town, Caerleon-on-Usk" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2018 .
^
Stephen, Leslie , ed. (1887).
"Cholmondeley, Hugh (d.1724)" .
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^
"History of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Pencander Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware" . Retrieved 14 December 2012 .
^
Baker, J. N. L. (1954). The
Victoria History of the County of Oxford Volume III - The University of Oxford . The University of London Institute of Historical Research. p. 278.
^ Romney Sedgwick (1970).
The House of Commons, 1715-1754: Members E-Y . History of Parliament Trust. p. 4.5.
^
"Samuel Hallifax (HLFS749S)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^
"Richards, Thomas (1710?-1790)" .
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ Edwards, Frederick George (1900).
"Worgan, John" . In
Lee, Sidney (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts.
"Rowland, Daniel (1713-1790), Methodist cleric" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 26 November 2018 .
^
"Lort, Michael" .
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.