:1709 in Wales

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{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}
Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke{{cite book | last = Brown | first = Richard | title = Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 | publisher = Routledge | location = London England New York, NY | year = 1991 | isbn = 9781134982707 | page=25}}

Bishop of Bangor – John Evans{{cite book|author=Charles John Abbey|title=The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800|publisher=Longmans, Green|year=1887|pages=357-359}}
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{{cite book|title=Guides and Handbooks, no 2|publisher=Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)|year=1939|page=203}}
Bishop of St Davids – George Bull{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Bull, George}}

19 July - David Parry is appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in succession to Edward Lhuyd.{{cite DWB|id=s-PARR-DAV-1682|title=Parry, David (1682-1714), scholar|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=18 January 2020}}
1 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.{{cite DWB|id=s-GAMB-OLD-1650|title=GAMBOLD family|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|fewer-links=yes|access-date=23 June 2018}}
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Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) takes charge of a school at Laugharne.{{cite DWB|id=s-BEVA-BRI-1698|title=BEVAN, BRIDGET ('Madam Bevan'; 1698-1779), philanthropist and educationist|author=Mary Clement|fewer-links=yes|access-date=23 June 2018}}
The "Company of Mine Adventures", headed by Humphrey Mackworth, goes bankrupt.{{cite DWB|id=s-MACK-HUM-1657|title=MACKWORTH, Sir HUMPHREY ( 1657-1727), industrialist and parliamentarian|author-link=David Williams (historian)|author=David Williams|fewer-links=yes|access-date=23 June 2018}}
Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.){{cite DWB|id=s-FOUL-HUM-1673|title=Foulkes, Humphrey (1673-1737), cleric and antiquary|author=Griffith Milwyn Griffiths|fewer-links=yes|access-date=18 January 2020}}

Edward Holdsworth - The mouse-trap; or, The Welsh engagement with the mice (a mock-heroic satire on the Welsh people, published anonymously){{cite ODNB|id=13498|title=Holdsworth, Edward|first=D. K.|last=Money}}

March - William Wynn, clergyman and poet (died 1760){{cite web|title=Wynn, William (bap. 1709, d. 1760)|last=Wiliam|first=Dafydd Wyn |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30156|access-date=10 March 2009}}
11 June - Philip David, Independent minister (died 1787)
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Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (died 1730){{cite DWB|id=s-GLYN-PEN-1603|title=GLYNNE family, of Hawarden, Flints|author=David Jenkins|fewer-links=yes|access-date=23 June 2018}}
Joseph Hoare, academic (died 1802)
David Williams, schoolmaster (died 1784){{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-DAV-1709|title=WILLIAMS, DAVID (1709-1784), Independent minister|fewer-links=yes|access-date=23 June 2018}}

22 January - Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, politician, 54{{cite DNB|wstitle=Herbert, Henry (1654-1709)|volume=26}}
6 June - James Herbert, politician, about 55{{cite web |title=HERBERT, Sir James (c.1644-1709), of Coldbrook Park, Mon. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/herbert-sir-james-1644-1709 |website=History of Parliament Online |access-date=1 June 2021}}
30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist and antiquary, 49{{cite DWB|id=s-LHUY-EDW-1660|title=LHUYD, EDWARD (1660-1709), botanist, geologist, antiquary, and philologist|author=Thomas Jones|fewer-links=yes|access-date=23 June 2018}}
22 August - John Jones, clergyman and physician, 63/64{{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-JOH-1645|title=JONES, JOHN (1645-1709), cleric|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|fewer-links=yes|access-date=23 June 2018}}
August - Huw Morus, poet, 86/87{{cite DWB|id=s-MORY-HUW-1622|title=MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet|author=David Jenkins|fewer-links=yes|access-date=23 June 2018}}