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This article is about the particular significance of the year '''1788''' to [[Wales]] and [[Welsh people|its people]].


==Incumbents==
==Incumbents==
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey]] - [[Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (second creation)|Henry Paget]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}</ref><ref name="Sainty">{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}</ref>
*[[Prince of Wales]] - [[George IV of the United Kingdom|George, Prince Regent]]
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire]] and [[Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire|Monmouthshire]] – [[Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort]]<ref>{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}</ref>
*[[Princess of Wales]] - ''vacant''
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire]] - [[Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire]] – [[Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne]]<ref name="Sainty"/>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire]] – [[John Vaughan (died 1804)|John Vaughan]]
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire]] - [[Richard Myddelton (1726–1795)|Richard Myddelton]]
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire]] - [[Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet]]
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan]] – [[John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute|John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart]]<ref>{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=612}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire]] - [[Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire]] – [[George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis]]<ref name="Sainty"/>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire]] – [[Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (first creation)|Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford]]<ref name="Sainty"/><ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-PHIL-PIC-1491|title=Philipps family, of Picton|author=Bertie George Charles|date=1959|access-date=19 October 2021}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire]] – [[Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}</ref><ref name="Sainty"/>

*[[Bishop of Bangor]] – [[John Warren (bishop)|John Warren]]<ref name="Fasti305">{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=305}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}</ref>
*[[Bishop of Llandaff]] – [[Richard Watson (bishop of Llandaff)|Richard Watson]]<ref>{{cite book|author=John Henry James|title=A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff|publisher=Western Mail|year=1898|page=16}}</ref>
*[[Bishop of St Asaph]] – [[Jonathan Shipley]] (until 6 December)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}</ref>
*[[Bishop of St Davids]] – [[Edward Smallwell]] (until 15 April); [[Samuel Horsley]] (from 11 May)<ref>{{cite book|title=Guides and Handbooks|publisher=Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)|year=1939|page=163}}</ref>


==Events==
==Events==
*[[March 18]] - Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at [[Llanuwchllyn]].
*[[18 March]] – Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at [[Llanuwchllyn]].<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-KENR-ICK-1741|title=KENRICK family of Wynn Hall, Denbs., and Bron Clydwr, Mer.|author=A. H. Dodd|author-link=A. H. Dodd|access-date=23 October 2018}}</ref>
*[[June 4]] - [[Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Gredington]], becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
*[[4 June]] – [[Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon]], becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
*''date unknown'' – Architect [[John Nash (architect)|John Nash]], during his "Welsh interlude", designs the stable block at [[Plas Llanstephan]]<ref>Suggett, Richard (1995) ''John Nash Architect in Wales'', The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, {{ISBN|1-871184-16-9}}</ref>


==Arts and literature==
==Arts and literature==

===New books===
===New books===
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*[[John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis)]] - ''Yr Athrofa Rad''
*[[Robert Jones (Robert ab Ioan)]] – ''Drych i'r Anllythrennog''<ref>{{cite book|title=Annual Report|publisher=National Library of Wales|year=1926|page=26}} Note: DWB is the only source that gives a date of 1778 as opposed to 1788</ref>
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*[[Hester Thrale|Hester Lynch Piozzi]] - ''Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson''
*[[Nicholas Owen (priest)|Nicholas Owen]] – ''British Remains''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21024|title= Owen, Nicholas (1752–1811)|last=Pollard|first=Albert|author-link=Albert Pollard|author2=Walters, Huw|year=2004|work=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|accessdate=16 March 2009}}</ref>
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*[[John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis)]] – ''Yr Athrofa Rad''
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*[[Hester Thrale|Hester Lynch Piozzi]] – ''Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson''


==Births==
==Births==
*[[February 12]] - [[William Williams (politician)|William Williams]], MP (died 1865)
*[[12 February]] – [[William Williams (Radical politician)|William Williams]], MP (died [[1865 in Wales|1865]])
*[[5 October]] – [[John Montgomery Traherne]], antiquary (died [[1860 in Wales|1860]]).<ref>{{cite book|last=Burke|first=Sir Bernard|title=A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWRHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1423|edition=Public domain|year=1852|publisher=Colburn and Company|page=1423}}</ref>
**[[October 3]] - [[John Montgomery Traherne]], antiquary (died 1860)
*[[28 December]] – [[Griffith Davies]], actuary (died [[1855 in Wales|1855]])
*''date unknown'' – [[Mary Morgan (infanticide)|Mary Morgan]], servant hanged for killing her newborn child (died [[1805 in Wales|1805]])
*''probable'' – [[Elijah Waring]], English-born preacher, editor and writer (died [[1857 in Wales|1857]])<ref>{{Cite DWB|id=s-WARI-ELI-1788|title=Waring, Elijah|first=Griffith John|last=Williams}}</ref>


==Deaths==
==Deaths==
*[[30 January]] – [[Charles Edward Stuart]], last Stuart claimant to the title of [[Prince of Wales]], 67<ref>{{cite book|author=Theo Aronson|title=Kings over the Water: The Saga of the Stuart Pretenders|publisher=Thistle Publishing|year=1979|page=361}}</ref>
*[[August 4]] - [[Evan Evans]] (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), clergyman and poet, 57
*[[25 May]] – David Thomas, noted bone-setter, 49<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-THOM-DAV-1739|title=THOMAS, DAVID (1739?–1788), bone-setter|author=Moelwyn Idwal Williams|access-date=5 February 2019}}</ref>
*[[4 August]] – [[Evan Evans (poet)|Evan Evans]] (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-EVAN-EVA-1731|title=Evans, Evan Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir 1731-1788), scholar, poet, and cleric|author= Aneirin Lewis|access-date=21 August 2020}}</ref>
*[[6 December]] – [[Jonathan Shipley]], Bishop of Llandaff and St Asaph, 74<ref>{{cite DWB|title=Shipley, William (1745&ndash;1826), cleric|id=s-SHIP-DAV-1745|year=1959|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|accessdate=17 July 2020}}</ref>
*''date unknown'' – [[David Evans (Canon at St Asaph)|David Evans]], canon of St Asaph, writer and musician, 82–83<ref>{{cite DWB|title= Evans, David (1705&ndash;1788), cleric, author, and musician |id=s-EVAN-DAV-1705|year=1959|last=Griffith|first=Robert David|accessdate=17 July 2020}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}


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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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References

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  1. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
  4. ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
  7. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
  8. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
  9. ^ Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  10. ^ Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
  11. ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
  12. ^ The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
  15. ^ Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
  16. ^ A. H. Dodd. "KENRICK family of Wynn Hall, Denbs., and Bron Clydwr, Mer.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  17. ^ Suggett, Richard (1995) John Nash Architect in Wales, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, ISBN 1-871184-16-9
  18. ^ Annual Report. National Library of Wales. 1926. p. 26. Note: DWB is the only source that gives a date of 1778 as opposed to 1788
  19. ^ Pollard, Albert; Walters, Huw (2004). "Owen, Nicholas (1752–1811)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
  20. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1852). A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852 (Public domain ed.). Colburn and Company. p. 1423.
  21. ^ Williams, Griffith John. "Waring, Elijah". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
  22. ^ Theo Aronson (1979). Kings over the Water: The Saga of the Stuart Pretenders. Thistle Publishing. p. 361.
  23. ^ Moelwyn Idwal Williams. "THOMAS, DAVID (1739?–1788), bone-setter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  24. ^ Aneirin Lewis. "Evans, Evan Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir 1731-1788), scholar, poet, and cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  25. ^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (1959). "Shipley, William (1745–1826), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  26. ^ Griffith, Robert David (1959). "Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
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