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    • Source: 1708 in Wales

      • This article is about the particular significance of the year 1708 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
      Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
      Bishop of Bangor – John Evans
      Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
      Bishop of St Asaph – William Beveridge (until 5 March); William Fleetwood (from 6 June)
      Bishop of St Davids – George Bull


      Events


      July - Following the British general election, some changes in representation occur in Wales:
      Whig Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet, replaces Tory John Meyrick as MP for Pembroke
      Whig Thomas Windsor replaces Sir Hopton Williams, 3rd Baronet, of the same party, as MP for Monmouthshire
      Sir John Aubrey, 3rd Baronet, is re-elected as MP for Cardiff, after his opponent, Sir Edward Stradling, 5th Baronet, falls out with his supporters.
      John Roberts replaces Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, as MP for Denbigh Boroughs
      October – Edmund Meyrick sets up a school at Carmarthen.
      Edward Lhuyd is elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
      Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, marries Cecil Mathew of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch.


      Arts and literature




      = New books

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      Cennad oddiwrth y Ser... (almanac)
      Jenkin Evans - Catecism Byr i Blant (translation of Mathew Henry's Short Catechism for Children)


      Births


      8 December - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist (died 1759)
      date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary (died 1781)
      probable
      Joshua Andrews, Baptist minister (died 1793)
      Lewis Hopkin, poet and artisan (died 1771)


      Deaths


      5 March – William Beveridge, Bishop of St Asaph, 71
      23 March - Thomas Bulkeley, politician, 75
      1 December - William Wogan, judge and politician, about 70


      See also


      1708 in Scotland


      References

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