This article is about the particular significance of the year 1705 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents edit
- 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 – William Beaw[4]
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Beveridge[5]
- Bishop of St Davids – George Bull (consecrated 29 April)[6]
Events edit
- 29 April - George Bull is consecrated Bishop of St David's.[7]
- May–June - In the 1705 English general election, Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, becomes MP for Anglesey, and Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, is MP for Monmouth Boroughs.[8]
- date unknown - Edward Brereton is replaced as MP for Denbigh after having offended the local gentry.[9]
Arts and literature edit
New books edit
- Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
- Thomas Edwardes - Diocesan Episcopacy proved from Holy Scripture[10]
- Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published)
- Walter Morgan - The Parson's Jewel[11]
Births edit
- 6 May - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763)
- date unknown
- David Evans, Canon of St Asaph (d. 1788)[12]
- Dafydd Nicolas, poet (d. 1774)
Deaths edit
- August - William Richards, author of Wallography, or the Britton described[13]
- date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
- ^ a b Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
- ^ Grosart, Rev. A. B. (1885). Dictionary of National Biography. pp. 447–448.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ John Lemprière (1810). Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical, of the Life and Character, Labors and Actions of Eminent Persons. E. Sargeant. p. 247.
- ^ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1878). Parliamentary Papers. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 8.
- ^ David Hayton; Eveline Cruickshanks; Stuart Handley (2002). The House of Commons, 1690-1715. Cambridge University Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-521-78318-7.
- ^ Dafydd Rhys ap Thomas. "Edwardes, Thomas (1652-1721), cleric and Coptic scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan, Walter (fl. 1695), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ Griffith, Robert David (1959). "Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.