1712 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1712 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^[1][2]
• Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke^[1][3]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Evans^[4]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler^[5]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Fleetwood^[6]
• Bishop of St Davids – Philip Bisse^[7]

Events

• 1 January
  • Thomas Mansel, 5th Baronet, becomes 1st Baron Mansel.^[8]
  • Thomas Trevor is raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Trevor of Bromham.^[9]
  • Thomas Windsor, son of the Earl of Plymouth, is created Baron Mountjoy. Windsor, the second husband of Charlotte Jeffreys, daughter of Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, would sell much of his family's Welsh property, but their Glamorgan estates would pass through the marriage of a descendant, Charlotte Hickman-Windsor, to John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute.^[10]
• July - On the death of its Principal Jonathan Edwards, Jesus College, Oxford, inherits his extensive library. Edwards is buried in the college chapel, whose restoration is funded by another bequest in his will.^[11]
• August - Jonathan Edwards is replaced as Principal of Jesus by John Wynne, who has the support of the college Visitor, the Earl of Pembroke.^[12]
• October - Erasmus Lewis is appointed "provost-marshall-general in the Barbadoes".^[13]

Arts and literature

New books

• The series of Welsh Almanacks printed by Thomas Jones is completed. (Jones dies the following year.)^[14]
• Robert Nelson - Cydymaith i Ddyddiau Gwylion ac Ymprydiau Eglwys Loegr (translation by Thomas Williams of A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England)^[15]

Births

• January - David Owen, harpist (died 1741)^[16]

Deaths

• 20 July - Jonathan Edwards, theologian and academic, 83^[17]
• 12 September - Sir Thomas Williams, 1st Baronet, about 90^[18]
• 20 November - Humphrey Humphreys, bishop, 63^[19]
• date unknown - Nicholas Bagenal, MP for Anglesey, about 83^[20]

See also

• 1712 in Scotland

References

1. J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
3. Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
4. Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
5. 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
6. Guides and Handbooks, no 2. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 203.
7. Edward Geoffrey Watson Bill (1979). The Queen Anne Churches: A Catalogue of the Papers in Lambeth Palace Library of the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches in London and Westminster, 1711-1759. Mansell. p. xxiii.
8. Charles Mosley (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Vol. 2. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. p. 2394.
9. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Trevor, Sir John s.v. Thomas, Baron Trevor" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 257.
10. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mountjoy, Barons and Viscounts" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 941.
11. Evans, Elwyn. "EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1629 – 1712)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
12. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Wynne, John (1667–1743), bishop of S. Asaph and principal of Jesus College, Oxford". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
13. William Llewelyn Davies. "LEWIS, ERASMUS (1670-1754), writer of 'news-letters' and holder of posts under the Government". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
14. William Llewelyn Davies. "JONES, THOMAS (1648?-1713), of London and Shrewsbury, almanack maker, bookseller, printer, and publisher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
15. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Nelson, Robert (1656-1715), non-juror, supporter of the S.P.C.K., and philanthropist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
16. Robert David Griffith. "OWEN , DAVID ('Dafydd y Garreg Wen'; 1711/12-1741), harpist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
17. Evans, Elwyn. "Edwards, Jonathan (1629–1712)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
18. Edward Rowlands. "WILLIAMS, Sir Thomas, 1st Bt. (c.1621-1712), of Elham, Kent". History of Parliament. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
19. Evan Gilbert Wright. "HUMPHREYS, HUMPHREY (1648-1712), bishop, antiquary, historian, and genealogist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
20. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976.