1700 in Wales
# 1700 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1700 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield
* Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
* Bishop of Bangor – Humphrey Humphreys
* Bishop of Llandaff – William Beaw
* Bishop of St Asaph – Edward Jones
* Bishop of St Davids – vacant

## Events

* date unknown
   * Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly.
   * Evan Evans travels from Wales to become rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia
   * The Gower family immigrates from Worcestershire into Wales.

## Arts and literature

### New books

* John Jones – The Mysteries of Opium Revealed
* David Maurice
   * Arweiniwr cartrefol i'r iawn a'r buddiol dderbyniad o Swperyr Arglwydd
   * The Promised Reed; a sermon preach'd … for the support of weak Christians

## Births

* 8 March – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician (died 1731)
* May – Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, of Leeswood Hall, Flintshire, landowner and politician (died 1756)
* date unknown
   * John Jones, clergyman and controversialist (died 1770)
   * Benjamin Meredith, Baptist minister (died 1749)
   * Guto Nyth Brân (Griffith Morgan), legendary athlete (died 1737)
* probable
   * John Edwards (Siôn y Potiau), poet (died 1776)
   * Lewis Evans, surveyor (died 1756)

## Deaths

* 21 January – Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, politician, 70/71
* 15 March – Hugh Owen, independent minister
* 11 July – Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Gray's Inn, 65/66
* 19 July – John Evans, Puritan clergyman and teacher, 51/52
* 15 September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, about 50 (injuries from a fall)
* 16 December – Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox)
* probable – Owen Wynne, lawyer and civil servant, about 48
