1793 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
[edit]- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne[2]
- 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 (until 14 March)[7] John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Watkin Williams (until 4 December); Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (from 4 December)[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley[10][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – John Warren[11][12]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson[13]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot[14][11]
- Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley (until 7 December)[15]
Events
[edit]- 22 November - Two ships, the Morva and the Cavendish, are wrecked on The Smalls off Pembrokeshire.[16]
- Construction of Clydach Ironworks begins.[17]
- A group of Quakers from Nantucket Island settle at Milford Haven, where they attempt to set up a whaling industry.
- Y Cylchgrawn Cymraeg is the first political journal to be published in the Welsh language.
Arts and literature
[edit]New books
[edit]- Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791[18]
Births
[edit]- 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
- 8 February - Daniel Rees, clergyman and hymn-writer (d. 1857)
- 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)
- 11 October - Maria James, poet and domestic servant (d. 1868 in the United States)
- 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)
Deaths
[edit]- January - Marged ferch Ifan, harpist, 96
- 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?
- 14 March - Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, 57[19]
- 22 May - John Lloyd, antiquary, 60[20]
References
[edit]- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
- ^ Edwin Poole (1886). 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. p. 378.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
- ^ Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
- ^ a b Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
- ^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
- ^ John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
- ^ Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
- ^ "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (2562). 22 November 1793.
- ^ A. W. Skempton; Mike Chrimes (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830. Thomas Telford. pp. 319–. ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.
- ^ Michael J. Franklin (22 September 2011). 'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794. OUP Oxford. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-0-19-953200-1.
- ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod's. 1921. p. 283.
- ^ Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "LLOYD, JOHN (1733–1793)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2008.