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1789
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1789 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 Baronet (until 24 July); Watkin Williams (from 27 August)Edward 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 – Samuel Hallifax (from 4 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
July–August - Bread riots break out in North Wales.John Ehrman The Younger Pitt https://books.google.com/books?id=QBM7_KWGRHUC 1983 Stanford University Press 92 9780804711845
23 October - Christmas Evans marries Catherine Jones at Bryncroes chapel in Llŷn, shortly after his own ordination.
8 November - Port Penrhyn opens.Chester, Friday, Nov. 13 Chester Chronicle 1789-11-13 3
unknown date - Blaenavon Ironworks begins production.The Foundry Trade Journal https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7okAQAAMAAJ 1972 Institute of Cast Metals Engineers.
Arts and literature
12 May - Thomas Jones organises an eisteddfod at the New Inn (modern-day Owain Glyndwr Hotel) in Corwen,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=PA166 15 April 2013 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-2591-9 166– where for the first time the public are admitted.
New books
Jenkin Lewis - Memoirs of Prince William Henry, Duke of GloucesterThe Gentleman's Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=zF3PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA339 1789 E. Cave 339
Iolo Morganwg - Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym, incorporating probable forgeries by MorganwgJones Mary 2004 Edward Williams/Iolo Morganwg/Iolo Morgannwg Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia 2024-08-08 http://www.maryjones.us/jce/iolo.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160521191155/http://www.maryjones.us/jce/iolo.html 21 May 2016 .
Richard Price - Love for our Country
Births
22 April - Richard Roberts, mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1864)
24 May - Betsi Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)https://books.google.com/books?id=q1W7yLE6ZuIC&q=Betsi+Cadwaladr+born+may+1789 Welsh National Heroes 9780862436100 Roberts Alun 2002 Y Lolfa
Deaths
28 June - John Walters, priest and poet, 29https://biography.wales/article/s-WALT-JOH-1760 WALTERS, JOHN (1760-1789), cleric, poet, and scholar Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales Griffith John Williams 23 October 2018
24 July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39Thomas, Peter, D.G., Biography in History of Parliament Online, extracted from The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964
7 August - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70s-EDWA-WIL-1719 Edwards, William (1719-1789), Independent minister, and architect Edward Ivor Williams 1959 1 November 2021
26 November - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?s-BAKE-ELI-1720 Baker, Elizabeth (1720-1789), diarist William Llewelyn Davies 1959 1 November 2021
References
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