1785 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1785 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- Sir Joshua Reynolds paints the Prince of Wales.
- The Mona Mine Company is formed by Thomas Williams of Llanidan and Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge.
- Richard Pennant buys out the Yonge family of Devon and comes into possession of the whole of the Penrhyn estate.
- Griffith Rowlands becomes surgeon to Chester city hospital.
Arts and literature
New books
- Florence Miscellany (including poems by Hester Thrale)
- Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth
Births
- 9 August - John Henry Vivian, industrialist and politician (died 1855)
- December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
- 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
- date unknown
- David Hughes, Anglican priest and writer (died 1850)[1]
- William Owen, historian (died 1864)
Deaths
- 2 February - John Guest, industrialist, 63
- June - Siôn Bradford, poet, 78?
- 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
References
- ^ Ellis, Thomas Iorwerth (2007). "Hughes, David (1785–1850), cleric and author". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 March 2009.