1705 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1680s; 1690s; 1700s; 1710s; 1720s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1705 in England Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1705 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^[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[]

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[]

New books[]

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[]

6 May - , 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[]

August - William Richards, author of Wallography, or the Britton described^[13]
date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^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.
^ Jump up to: ^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.
^ "Bull, George" . 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 (2007). "Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 March 2009.
^ "Richards, William (1643-1705)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[Sainty-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.

[2] Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.

[3] Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.

[Abbey-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.

[5] Grosart, Rev. A. B. (1885). Dictionary of National Biography. pp. 447–448.

[6] "Bull, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[7] 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.

[8] Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1878). Parliamentary Papers. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 8.

[9] David Hayton; Eveline Cruickshanks; Stuart Handley (2002). The House of Commons, 1690-1715. Cambridge University Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-521-78318-7.

[10] Dafydd Rhys ap Thomas. "Edwardes, Thomas (1652-1721), cleric and Coptic scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 June 2019.

[11] Walter Thomas Morgan. "Morgan, Walter (fl. 1695), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 August 2019.

[12] Griffith, Robert David (2007). "Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 March 2009.

[13] "Richards, William (1643-1705)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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Contents

Incumbents[]

Events[]

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

See also[]

References[]