1784 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1784 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget (from 1 August)Edward 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 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.Joseph Timothy Haydn Robert Beatson Beatson's Political index modernised. The book of dignities; containing rolls of the official personages of the British empire, together with the sovereigns of Europe, the peerage of England and of Great Britain; and numerous other lists https://archive.org/details/beatsonspolitic00beatgoog 1851 244– 7 May - Lady Henrietta Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey.s12-CLIV-ANT-1758 Clive, Henrietta Antonia (1758-1830), traveller and scientific collector Paul Frame 12 April 2018 28 October 2021 14 May - Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, is created Baron Bulkeley. 19 May - Henry Bayly Paget, 9th Baron Paget, is created Earl of Uxbridge. 23-25 July - Hester Thrale marries Gabriele Piozzi, much to the displeasure of Dr Samuel Johnson.Marianna D’Ezio Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity https://books.google.com/books?id=wEIaBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA50 8 January 2010 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 978-1-4438-1891-9 50– 28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.12562 20 July 1784 1 unknown date – Samuel Homfray and his brother quarrel with Anthony Bacon and take out a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district (which develops into the Penydarren ironworks). Arts and literature New books Richard Price – Importance of the American Revolution Music Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) – The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including first publication of the harp air Dafydd y Garreg Wen http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14997/2004-09 Jones, Edward [Bardd y Brenin] (1752–1824) September 2009 9 December 2015 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press Herbert Trevor Births 17 January – Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)Thomas Mardy Rees A History of the Quakers in Wales and Their Emigration to North America https://books.google.com/books?id=gpxhAAAAMAAJ 1925 W. Spurrell and son 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877)The Australian Encyclopaedia https://books.google.com/books?id=rtEiAAAAMAAJ 1977 Grolier Society of Australia 978-0-9596604-0-1 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864) date unknown Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)Cardiff (Wales). Records Committee Cardiff records, being materials for a history of the County Borough from the earliest times https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSZOAAAAYAAJ 1905 Western Mail Ltd. Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862)Stewart Williams Stewart Williams' Glamorgan Historian https://books.google.com/books?id=w6kxAQAAIAAJ 1968 D. Brown 187 David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841)s-OWEN-DAV-1784 Owen, David Deaths 8 February – Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis)s-BASS-CHR-1753 BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric Roberts Gomer Morgan 2008-04-22 March – John Evans, Methodist exhorter, 47?s-EVAN-JOH-1784 EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter Gomer Morgan Roberts Gomer Morgan Roberts 5 February 2019 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74? December – John Richard, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer, age unknowns1-RICH-JOH-1743 RICHARD, JOHN (fl. 1743-1784), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer Gomer Morgan Roberts Gomer Morgan Roberts 5 February 2019 date unknown John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?s-HANB-URY-1664 Hanbury family Stafford Prys cy, publisher, 52? References Wales Wales Category:1784 in Europe Category:1780s in Wales