1788 in Wales

none September 2019 July 2020 1788 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 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 - 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 – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milfords-PHIL-PIC-1491 Philipps family, of Picton Bertie George Charles 1959 19 October 2021 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 Shipley (until 6 December)The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell (until 15 April); Samuel Horsley (from 11 May)Guides and Handbooks Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) 1939 163 Events 18 March – Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at Llanuwchllyn.s-KENR-ICK-1741 KENRICK family of Wynn Hall, Denbs., and Bron Clydwr, Mer. A. H. Dodd A. H. Dodd 23 October 2018 4 June – Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench. date unknown – Architect John Nash, during his "Welsh interlude", designs the stable block at Plas LlanstephanSuggett, Richard (1995) John Nash Architect in Wales, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, 1-871184-16-9 Arts and literature New books Robert Jones (Robert ab Ioan) – Drych i'r AnllythrennogAnnual Report National Library of Wales 1926 26 Note: DWB is the only source that gives a date of 1778 as opposed to 1788 Nicholas Owen – British Remains.http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21024 Owen, Nicholas (1752–1811) Pollard Albert Albert Pollard Walters, Huw 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 16 March 2009 John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) – Yr Athrofa Rad Hester Lynch Piozzi – Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson Births 12 February – William Williams, MP (died 1865) 5 October – John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860).Burke Sir Bernard A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852 https://books.google.com/books?id=iWRHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1423 Public domain 1852 Colburn and Company 1423 28 December – Griffith Davies, actuary (died 1855) date unknown – Mary Morgan, servant hanged for killing her newborn child (died 1805) probable – Elijah Waring, English-born preacher, editor and writer (died 1857)s-WARI-ELI-1788 Waring, Elijah Griffith John Williams Deaths 30 January – Charles Edward Stuart, last Stuart claimant to the title of Prince of Wales, 67Theo Aronson Kings over the Water: The Saga of the Stuart Pretenders Thistle Publishing 1979 361 25 May – David Thomas, noted bone-setter, 49s-THOM-DAV-1739 THOMAS, DAVID (1739?–1788), bone-setter Moelwyn Idwal Williams 5 February 2019 4 August – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57s-EVAN-EVA-1731 Evans, Evan Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir 1731-1788), scholar, poet, and cleric Aneirin Lewis 21 August 2020 6 December – Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Llandaff and St Asaph, 74Shipley, William (1745–1826), cleric s-SHIP-DAV-1745 1959 Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 17 July 2020 date unknown – David Evans, canon of St Asaph, writer and musician, 82–83 Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician s-EVAN-DAV-1705 1959 Griffith Robert David 17 July 2020 References Wales Wales Category:1788 in Europe Category:1780s in Wales