:1719 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1719 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 Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby{{cite book | last = Brown | first = Richard | title = Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 | publisher = Routledge | location = London; New York | year = 1991 | isbn = 9781134982707 | page=25}}{{cite book|title=West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales|publisher=W. Spurrell and son|year=1916|page=167}}
- Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly{{Cite ODNB|id=13375|title=Hoadly, Benjamin}}
- 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 – John Wynne{{cite book|author= Stephen Hyde Cassan|title=Lives of the Bishops of Bath|year=1829|page=162}}
- Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley{{ODNBweb|id=63755|title=Ottley, Adam|first=J. D.|last=Davies}}
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 Samuel – Catecism 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 Willis – Survey 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 February – Joshua 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 June – Joshua 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 November – Princess 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 unknown – Sir 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 January – Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet, 90{{cite DNB|wstitle=Wynn, John|volume=63}}
- 4 April – Thomas 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 October – Samuel 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}}