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1791 in Wales
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1791
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1791 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 – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of BeaufortEdwin 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 - Watkin WilliamsEdward 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 – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milfords-PHIL-PIC-1491 Philipps family, of Picton Bertie George Charles 1959 19 October 2021
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley (politician, born 1730) (from 8 April)Jonathan 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 – Lewis BagotThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15
Bishop of St Davids – Samuel HorsleyGuides and Handbooks Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) 1939 163
Events
June - William Jones distributes copies of an address at the Llanrwst eisteddfod, titled To all Indigenous Cambro-Britons, calling on poor Welsh farmers to set up a colony in the United States.Mary-Ann Constantine Dafydd R. Johnston Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt': Essays on Wales and the French Revolution https://books.google.com/books?id=AoGvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA135 15 April 2013 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2591-9 135
Richard Phillips builds Clyne Castle.Ralph Alan Griffiths Clyne Castle, Swansea: A History of the Building and Its Owners https://books.google.com/books?id=-cIqAQAAMAAJ 1977 University College of Swansea 978-0-86076-001-6
Peter Williams is excommunicated by the Methodists for publishing Sabellian heresy.
Probable date of completion of Methodist chapel at Earlswood, Monmouthshire.
Thomas Jones becomes High Sheriff of Radnorshire.
Arts and literature
New books
Joshua Thomas - New translation of the Baptist "Confession of Faith" issued by the London Assembly of 1689
John Williams - An enquiry into the truth of the tradition concerning the discovery of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170
Peter Williams - Llythyr at Hen Gydymaith
Births
23 February - Sir John Cowell-Stepney, baronet, landowner and politician (d. 1877)"The" Illustrated London News https://books.google.com/books?id=XQApQ8oFNQYC&pg=PA526 1877 Elm House 526–
5 December - William Henry Yelverton, MP for Carmarthen Boroughs 1832–1835 (d. 1884)The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=x15mAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA864 1809 864
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Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)Welsh Bibliographical Society The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society https://books.google.com/books?id=NSlVAAAAYAAJ 1916 Welsh Bibliographical Society
Thomas Fothergill, ironmaster (d. 1858)
Deaths
11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73Robert Hall Baynes The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted by R.H. Baynes https://books.google.com/books?id=lzgEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA84 1871 84–
13 February - William Parry, artist, 48https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/william-parry-ara William Parry ARA (ca. 1742-1791) Royal Academy 2 November 2021
19 April - Richard Price, philosopher, 68McElroy Wendy Wendy McElroy Ronald Hamowy Ronald Hamowy The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC 2008 SAGE; Cato Institute Thousand Oaks, CA 10.4135/9781412965811.n240 978-1412965804 750831024 2008009151 388–89 Price, Richard (1723–1791)
17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47
References
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