1790s in Wales

none August 2026 1780s | 1800s | Other years in Wales Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1790–1799 to Wales and its people. Events 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 Arts and literature New books 1790 Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi Thomas Pennant - Indian Zoology Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth 1792 Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc. 1793 Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791 1794 Iolo Morganwg - Poems Lyric and Pastoral Peter Williams -Gwreiddyn y Mater 1795 Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl 1797 Edward Charles - Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Toriad y Dydd Nathaniel Williams - Pregeth a Bregethwyd yn Llangloffan ar Neilltuad ... Joseph James a James Davies 1798 Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public 1799 Philip Yorke - The Royal Tribes of Wales Music 1798 Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies Births 1790 27 January - William Davies Evans, chess player (d. 1872) 11 August - William Probert, minister and author (d. 1870) 16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph 29 September - John Jones (printer) (d. 1855) 1791 date unknown - Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875) 1792 23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851) 5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865) 20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863) date unknown - Sir Charles John Salusbury, Baronet (d. 1868) 1793 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866) March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown) 19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867) 10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848) 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835) 1794 7 May - Rees Howell Gronow, memoirist (d. 1865) 3 November - David Thomas, industrialist (d. 1882) date unknown Evan Davies (Eta Delta), Independent minister (d. 1855) Thomas Jenkyn, theologian (d. 1858) 1795 13 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (d. 1884) 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (d. 1869) December - John Davies, philosopher (d. 1861) 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (d. 1882) 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (d. 1876) 1796 1 March - John Jones, Talysarn, preacher (d. 1857) 1797 11 January - Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's (d. 1875) 1798 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (d. 1882) 1799 30 June - David Williams, politician (d. 1869) Deaths 1790 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, lexicographer, 80 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, 77 1791 11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73 13 February - William Parry, artist, 48 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher, 68 17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47 1792 10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78 17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72? 1793 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73? 1794 22 January - John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, MP and heir of the Marquess of Bute, 26 ?August - Sackville Gwynne, landowner, 43? 19 August - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet, soldier and politician, 76 Hon. William Paget, MP for Anglesey, 25? 1795 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79 1796 February - John Jones, organist, 70? 8 August - Peter Williams, Methodist writer, 63 1797 1 June - John Walters, lexicographer, 75 1798 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72 1799 May - John Evans, explorer, 29 4 November - Josiah Tucker, economist, 87https://biography.wales/article/s-TUCK-JOS-1712.html TUCKER, JOSIAH (1712 - 1799), cleric and economist Dictionary of Welsh Biography 3 August 2026 References Category:18th century in Wales Wales Category:Decades in Wales