1714 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1714 to Wales and its people.

← 1713 1712 1711 1710 1709 1714 in Wales → 1715 1716 1717 1718 1719
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1714 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George II)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach

Events

• 8 May - Adam Ottley, Bishop of St David's, complains that Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) has been "going about preaching on week days in Churches, Churchyards, and sometimes on the mountains, to hundreds of auditors".[1]
• September 27 - Prince George, son of King George I, is invested as Prince of Wales. His wife, Caroline of Ansbach, becomes the first Princess of Wales to receive the title at the same time as her husband[2] and the first Princess of Wales for over two hundred years.
• October - The new Princess of Wales arrives in Britain with two of her children.[3]
• date unknown
  • Erasmus Saunders marries the daughter of Humphrey Lloyd of Aberbechan.[4]
  • Following the death of Robert Jeffreys, a descendant of George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, the last member of the Jeffreys family to reside at Acton Hall, Wrexham, the estate passes into the hands of a brother-in-law, Philip Egerton.[5]

Arts and literature

New books

• James Davies (Iaco ap Dewi) - Daily Communion with God (translation)[6]
• John Morgan of Matchin - Myfyrdodau bucheddol ar y pedwar peth diweddaf[7]
• Christmas Samuel - Gemau Doethineb

Births

• 23 January - Howell Harris, Methodist leader (died 1773)[8]
• March - Edward Richard, schoolmaster and poet (died 1777)[9]

Deaths

• 22 June - Matthew Henry, Presbyterian minister, 51
• December - David Parry, scholar, assistant to Edward Lhuyd, about 32[10]
• 31 December - John Wynne, industrialist, 64[11]

See also

• 1714 in Scotland

References

1. Mary Clement. "JONES, GRIFFITH (1683-1761), cleric and educational reformer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
2. Fryer, M.; Fryer, Mary Beacock; Bousfield, Arthur; Toffoli, Garry (1983). Lives of the Princesses of Wales. Toronto: Dundern Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-919670-69-3.
3. Arkell, R. L. (1939). Caroline of Ansbach. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 64–66.
4. Mary Clement. "SAUNDERS, ERASMUS (1670-1724), divine". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
5. "The History of Acton Park". Friends of Acton Park. Archived from the original on 20 August 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
6. Garfield Hopkin Hughes. "DAVIES, JAMES (Iaco ap Dewi; 1648-1722)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
7. Edwards, Huw M. (2004). "Morgan, John (1688–1733/4)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
8. Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Harris, Howel(l) (1714-1773), religious reformer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
9. David Gwenallt Jones. "Richard, Edward (1714-1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
10. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "Parry, David (1682?–1714), scholar". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
11. Jenkins, Robert Thomas (2007). "Wynne, John (1650–1714), industrial pioneer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 April 2009.