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1786
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786 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 (until 16 January); Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (from 11 June)s-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 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
25 December - Plymouth ironworks is leased to Richard Hill.
The Kinmel estate is sold to the Rev Edward Hughes for £42,000.H. J. Habakkuk Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650-1950 https://books.google.com/books?id=nNy5AAAAIAAJ 1994 Clarendon Press 978-0-19-820398-8
Abraham Rees completes his edition of Chambers 's Encyclopaedia, and is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his work.
Charles Pratt is created Earl Camden.
Arts and literature
New books
David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his lifeHester Lynch Piozzi Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: during the last twenty years of his life https://books.google.com/books?id=TaUEAAAAYAAJ 1786 Printed for T. Cadell
Helen Maria Williams - PoemsKennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). 0-8387-5511-9.
Music
William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns)Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion https://books.google.com/books?id=AXJIAQAAIAAJ 1953 Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa
Benjamin Francis - Aleluia (collection of hymns)
Births
6 April - John Humffreys Parry, barrister and antiquary (died 1825)Parry, John Humffreys (1786-1825) 43
May - John Jones, printer and inventor (died 1865)
22 June - Ellis Evans, minister and author (died 1864)s-EVAN-ELL-1786 Evans, Ellis (1786-1864), Baptist minister and author Tom Ellis Jones 1959 29 October 2021
22 July - John Edward Madocks, MP for Denbigh (died 1837)
Deaths
16 January - Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet, politician, about 55http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/owen-hugh-1731-86 OWEN, Hugh (?1731-86), of Orielton, Pemb. History of Parliament Online 28 June 2016
21 January - Anthony Bacon, ironmaster, 67s-BACO-N00-1718 Bacon family Watkin William Price 1959 29 October 2021
12 March - Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis, 51Salopian Shreds and Patches 1875 159
2 July (bur.) - John Ystumllyn, gardener, "first well-recorded black person of North Wales"
16 September - Edward Parry, poet and hymn-writer, 63
References
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