1790 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1790 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1790 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 – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (until 11 October)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 – Samuel Hallifax (until 4 March); Lewis Bagot (from 28 April)The 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 thumb|Monmouth County Gaol 18 May - The first meeting of the Literary Fund, founded by David Williams ("to assist indigent authors") takes place in London.s-WILL-DAV-1738 WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer David Williams David Williams (historian) 26 November 2018 9 June - Royal assent is given to establishment of the port of Milford Haven.Phil Carradice The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard https://books.google.com/books?id=6DOIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT13 15 August 2013 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-1310-9 13 August - Construction of the Glamorganshire Canal begins.Dean Powell Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical https://books.google.com/books?id=TUdpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PP64 15 September 2012 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-2052-7 64– exact date unknown Sir Herbert Mackworth gives up the Parliamentary seat of Cardiff when John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, comes of age.http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/mackworth-herbert-1737-91 MACKWORTH, Herbert (1737-91), of Gnoll, Glam. History of Parliament online 23 October 2018 The world's first railway viaduct (used by horse-drawn wagons to carry coal from the mines) is built at Blaenavon.Tim Taylor The Time Team Guide to the Archaeological Sites of Britain & Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=KtJrplHI2AgC&pg=PA106 2005 Channel 4 978-1-905026-01-2 106– Monmouth County Gaol is built.Newman John The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire 2000 Penguin Books 9780300096309 407 Calvinistic Methodist clergyman Thomas Charles of Bala attempts to preach at Corwen but is driven out of town by a mob. John Coles, son of the founder of the Cambrian Pottery, goes into partnership with entrepreneur George Haynes, resulting in the expansion of the business. Arts and literature New books English language Thomas Pennant - Indian ZoologyEnoch Robert G. Salisbury A catalogue of Cambric books at Glan-aber, Chester, A.D. 1500-1799, not mentioned in Rowland's 'Cambrian bibliography' [by E.R.G. Salisbury]. https://books.google.com/books?id=K6cIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA62 1873 62 David Williams - Lessons to a Young Prince (published anonymously) Welsh language Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso SosiniaethMarion Loffler Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales 1790-1806 https://books.google.com/books?id=B4OvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT37 15 October 2014 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-102-7 37– Births 150px|thumb|Sir George Everest 27 January - William Davies Evans, mariner and chess player (died 1872)Tim Harding, ‘Evans, William Davies (1790–1872)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2012 20 February (baptised) - Hugh Hughes, painter (died 1863)Hughes, Hugh (1790?-1863) 28 19 June - John Gibson, sculptor (died 1866)10625 Gibson, John Martin Greenwood July - James Williams, cleric and co-founder of the Anglesey Association of the Preservation of Lives from Shipwreck (died 1872) 4 July - George Everest, surveyor and geographer (died 1866)Smith James R. Sir George Everest Martin Geoffrey Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 15 2015 Bloomsbury Publishing 9781474226653 https://books.google.com/books?id=w3skCwAAQBAJ 11 August - William Probert, minister and author (died 1870)s-PROB-WIL-1790 Probert, William (1790-1870), Unitarian minister and author Thomas Isfryn Jones 1959 2 November 2021 16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph (died 1872) 27 September - Owen Jones Ellis Nanney (born Ellis Jones), MP (died 1870), father of Sir Hugh Ellis-Nanneys1-NANN-ELL-1759 Nanney (formerly Ellis), David Ellis (1759-1819), attorney-general for North Wales Thomas Richards 26 November 2018 29 September - John Jones, printer (died 1855) 25 November - Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 3rd Baronet, politician (died 1861)HAMLYN WILLIAMS, Sir James, 3rd. bt. (1790-1861), of Edwinsford, Carm. and Clovelly Court, nr. Bideford, Devon https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/hamlyn-williams-sir-james-1790-1861 History of Parliament 12 November 2023 probable - Thomas Penson (the younger), architect and surveyor (died 1859)Colvin H. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840 Yale University Press 3rd ed 1995,748-49 Deaths 4 March - Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of St Asaph, 57HLFS749S Samuel Hallifax 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80Richards, Thomas (1710?-1790) 24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66Frederick George Edwards Worgan, John 63 11 October - Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 64Death of the Earl of Oxford The Times 2 13 October 1790 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79s-ROWL-DAN-1713 Rowland, Daniel (1713-1790), Methodist cleric Gomer Morgan Roberts 26 November 2018 5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65Lort, Michael References Wales Wales Category:1790 in Europe Category:1790s in Wales