1785 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1785 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1785 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry PagetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of DderwEdwin Poole The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions Edwin Poole 1886 378 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount BulkeleyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl MortimerJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115 Bishop of Bangor – John WarrenThomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95 Bishop of Llandaff – Richard WatsonJohn Henry James A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff Western Mail 1898 16 Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan ShipleyThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Edward SmallwellGuides and Handbooks Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) 1939 163 Events 120px|thumb|Joshua Reynolds' 1785 portrait of George, Prince of Wales October - The Mona Mine Company is formed by Thomas Williams of Llanidan and Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge.William Henry Chaloner Palatinate Studies: Chapters in the Social and Industrial History of Lancashire and Cheshire https://books.google.com/books?id=bw0OAQAAMAAJ 1 January 1992 Carnegie Publishing 978-0-948789-85-4 date unknown Richard Pennant buys out the Yonge family of Devon and comes into possession of the whole of the Penrhyn estate. Griffith Rowlands becomes surgeon to Chester city hospital. Sir Joshua Reynolds paints George, Prince of Wales. Arts and literature New books Anna Maria Bennett - Anna: or Memoirs of a Welch HeiressDiane Long Hoeveler Darby Lewis Anna Maria Bennett Frederick Burwick Nancy Moore Goslee The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature Wiley 2012 120 Florence Miscellany (including poems by Hester Thrale) Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a MeddyginiaethWilliam Rowlands Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century. With Biographical Notices https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZKvynOd-iAC&pg=PA624 1869 John Pryse 624– Births 2 February - John Josiah Guest, engineer and industrialist (died 1852) 9 August - John Henry Vivian, copper merchant, industrialist and politician (died 1855)s-VIVI-HUS-1821 William Llewelyn Davies Vivian, Henry Hussey 7 February 2025 December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848) 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845) date unknown David Hughes, Anglican priest and writer (died 1850)s-HUGH-DAV-1785 Hughes, David (1785–1850), cleric and author Ellis Thomas Iorwerth Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 1959 5 March 2009 William Owen, historian (died 1864) Deaths 27 February - Robert Hughes, poet (Robin Ddu o Fôn)Hughes, Robert (1744?-1785) 28 25 April - Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet, politician, 74 http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/kemys-tynte-sir-charles-1710-85 KEMYS TYNTE, Sir Charles, 5th Bt. (1710-85), of Halswell, Som. and Cefn Mably, Glam. History of Parliament Online (1754-1790) 12 November 2018 June - Siôn Bradford, poet, 78? 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?s-JONE-DAV-1708 Jones, David (1708?-1785), 'of Trefriw ', poet, collector of manuscripts, publisher, and printer Griffith Milwyn Griffiths 1959 28 October 2021 November (probable) - John Guest, industrialist, 72/73Price, W. W. Josiah John Guest s-GUES-DOW-1722 28 October 2021 2007 References Wales Wales Category:1785 in Europe Category:1780s in Wales