• Source: 1718 in Wales

      • This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 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 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
      Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly
      Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
      Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
      Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley


      Events


      February - Prince George William of Wales falls ill (later diagnosed as a heart disease); his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are allowed by King George I to visit him at Kensington Palace, despite having been banished from the royal presence a few months earlier.
      11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates. Davis would subsequently capture another Welsh sailor, Bartholomew Roberts, and turn him to piracy.
      9 November - Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's.
      date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire.


      Arts and literature




      = New books

      =
      Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau
      Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published)
      Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco


      Births


      July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773)
      date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794)


      Deaths


      17 February - Prince George William of Wales, the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, aged three months
      30 April - Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet,
      1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72
      26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40
      date unknown
      Sir Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, former High Sheriff of Denbighshire
      William Evans, dissenting minister
      Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirk


      See also


      1718 in Scotland


      References

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