1718 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 to Wales and its people.

← 1717 1716 1715 1714 1713 1718 in Wales → 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1718 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

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 Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet^[1]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby^[1][3][4]

• Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly^[5]
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler^[6]
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne^[7]
• Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley^[8]

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.^[9]
• 11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates.^[10] 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.^[11]
• date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire.^[12]

Arts and literature

New books

• Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau^[13]
• Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published)^[14]
• Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco^[15]

Births

• July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773)^[16]
• date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794)^[17]

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,^[18]
• 1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72^[19]
• 26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40^[20]
• date unknown
  • Sir Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, former High Sheriff of Denbighshire^[21]
  • William Evans, dissenting minister^[22]
  • Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirk^[23]

See also

• 1718 in Scotland