:1719 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1719 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

  • March – The 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot is raised by Colonel Edmund Fielding as Edmund Fielding's Regiment of Foot.{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/041-719.htm |title=41st (the Welsh) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223230119/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/041-719.htm |archivedate=23 February 2007 |access-date=21 May 2018}}
  • date unknown
  • The Davies brothers of Bersham begin work on the wrought-iron gates at Chirk Castle.{{cite book|author=Wales Tourist Board|title=Castles and historic places in Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TsgjHm9ZWLsC|date=August 1974|publisher=The Board|isbn=978-0-900784-21-7|page=41}}
  • The first permanent legal printing press in Wales is established at Adpar by Isaac Carter of Carmarthenshire. It is believed that its first two publications are Cân o Senn i’w hen Feistr Tobacco by Alban Thomas and Cân ar Fesur Triban ynghylch Cydwybod a’i Chynheddfau.{{cite web|title=About Adpar |work=Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar |url=http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar |accessdate=2012-02-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008070817/http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar |archivedate=2009-10-08 }}
  • On the death without heirs of Sir John Wynne, the Wynnstay estate passes to Jane Thelwall, the great-granddaughter of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet.
  • The Welsh Charity School in London moves to Ailesbury Chapel, Clerkenwell, where it remains until about 1721.{{cite book |editor-first=Philip |editor-last=Temple |chapter=Clerkenwell Green |series=Survey of London |volume=46 |title=South and East Clerkenwell |place=New Haven, London |publisher=English Heritage |year=2008 |pages=86–114 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119413#s14 |ISBN=9780300137279 }}

Arts and literature

=New books=

  • Christmas SamuelCatecism o'r Scrythur
  • Eglurhad o Gatechism Byrraf y Gymanfa{{cite DWB|id=s-CART-ISA-1741|title=Carter, Isaac|author=William Llewelyn Davies|access-date=25 June 2019}}
  • Browne WillisSurvey of Llandaff{{cite DWB|id=s-PARR-GEO-1613|title=Parry, George|author=William Llewelyn Davies|fewer-links=yes|access-date=25 June 2019}}

Births

  • February – William Edwards, clergyman and bridge engineer (d. 1789){{cite DWB|id=s-EDWA-WIL-1719|title=Edwards, William (1719-1789), Independent minister, and architect|author=Edward Ivor Williams|fewer-links=yes|access-date=25 June 2019}}
  • 22 FebruaryJoshua Thomas, writer and Particular Baptist minister (d. 1797){{cite DWB|id=s-THOM-JOS-1718|title=Thomas, Joshua (1719-1797), Baptist minister and historian|fewer-links=yes|access-date=25 June 2019}}
  • 17 JuneJoshua Parry, nonconformist minister and writer (d. 1776){{cite DWB|id=s-PARR-JOS-1719|title=Parry, Joshua (1719-1776), Nonconformist minister, and writer|author1=Robert Thomas Jenkins|author2=Emyr Wyn Jones|fewer-links=yes|access-date=25 June 2019}}
  • 30 NovemberPrincess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, future Princess of Wales (d. 1772){{Cite book |title=Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain |last=Williamson |first=David |date=1986 |publisher=Salem House |isbn=978-0-88162-213-3 |page=157}}
  • date unknownSir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1769){{cite DWB|id=s-LLOY-PET-1747|title=Lloyd family, of Peterwell|author=Herbert Johnes Lloyd-Johnes|fewer-links=yes|access-date=25 June 2019}}

Deaths

  • 11 JanuarySir John Wynn, 5th Baronet, 90{{cite DNB|wstitle=Wynn, John|volume=63}}
  • 4 AprilThomas Powys, judge, 70/71{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/powys-sir-thomas-1649-1719| title=POWYS, Sir Thomas (c.1649-1719), of Henley, nr. Ludlow, Salop and Lilford cum Wigsthorpe, Northants. | publisher= History of Parliament Online| accessdate = 11 July 2019}}
  • 19 June – Captain Howell Davis, pirate, ca 29
  • 11 OctoberSamuel Jones, Dissenting minister and tutor{{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-SAM-1681|title=Jones, Samuel ([1681?]-1719), Dissenting Academy tutor|author= Robert Thomas Jenkins|fewer-links=yes|access-date=25 June 2019}}

References