1788 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 18 March – Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at Llanuwchllyn.[1]
- 4 June – Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
- date unknown – Architect John Nash, during his "Welsh interlude", designs the stable block at Plas Llanstephan[2]
Arts and literature
New books
- Nicholas Owen – British Remains.[3]
- John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) – Yr Athrofa Rad
- Hester Lynch Piozzi – Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson
Births
- 12 February – William Williams, MP (died 1865)
- 5 October – John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860).[4]
- 28 December – Griffith Davies, actuary (died 1855)
- date unknown – Mary Morgan, servant hanged for killing her newborn child (died 1805)
- probable – Elijah Waring, English-born preacher, editor and writer (died 1857)[5]
Deaths
- 25 May – David Thomas, noted bone-setter, 49[6]
- 4 August – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57[7]
- 6 December – Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Llandaff and St Asaph, 74[8]
- date unknown – David Evans, canon of St Asaph, writer and musician, 82–83[9]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Suggett, Richard (1995) John Nash Architect in Wales, The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, ISBN 1-871184-16-9
- ^ Pollard, Albert; Walters, Huw (2004). "Owen, Nicholas (1752–1811)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
- ^ 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.
- ^ *Welsh Biography Online
- ^ Moelwyn Idwal Williams. "THOMAS, DAVID (1739?–1788), bone-setter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (2007). "Shipley, William (1745–1826), cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ Griffith, Robert David (2007). "Evans, David (1705–1788), cleric, author, and musician". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 17 July 2020.