1790 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1790 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 18 May - The first meeting of the Literary Fund, founded by David Williams ("to assist indigent authors") takes place in London.[1]
- 9 June - Royal assent is given to establishment of the port of Milford Haven.[2]
- August - Construction of the Glamorganshire Canal begins.[3]
- exact date unknown
- Sir Herbert Mackworth gives up the Parliamentary seat of Cardiff when John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, comes of age.[4]
- The world's first railway viaduct (used by horse-drawn wagons to carry coal from the mines) is built at Blaenavon.[5]
- Monmouth County Gaol is built.[6]
- Calvinistic Methodist clergyman Thomas Charles of Bala attempts to preach at Corwen but is driven out of town by a mob.
- John Coles, son of the founder of the Cambrian Pottery, goes into partnership with entrepreneur George Haynes, resulting in the expansion of the business.
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi
- Thomas Pennant - Indian Zoology[7]
- David Williams - Lessons to a Young Prince (published anonymously)[7]
- Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth[8]
Births
- 27 January - William Davies Evans, mariner and chess player (died 1872)
- July - James Williams, cleric and co-founder of the Anglesey Association of the Preservation of Lives from Shipwreck (died 1872)
- 20 February (baptised) - Hugh Hughes, painter (died 1863)[9]
- 19 June - John Gibson, sculptor (died 1866)[10]
- 4 July - George Everest, surveyor and geographer (died 1866)
- 11 August - William Probert, minister and author (died 1870)
- 16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph (died 1872)
- 29 September - John Jones, printer (died 1855)
- date unknown - Owen Jones Ellis Nanney (born Ellis Jones), MP (died 1870), father of Sir Hugh Ellis-Nanney[11]
- probable - Thomas Penson (the younger), architect and surveyor (died 1859)[12]
Deaths
- 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80[13]
- 24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66
- 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79[14]
- 5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65
References
- ^ David Williams. "WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ Phil Carradice (15 August 2013). The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4456-1310-9.
- ^ Dean Powell (15 September 2012). Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-1-4456-2052-7.
- ^ "MACKWORTH, Herbert (1737-91), of Gnoll, Glam". History of Parliament online. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ Tim Taylor (2005). The Time Team Guide to the Archaeological Sites of Britain & Ireland. Channel 4. pp. 106–. ISBN 978-1-905026-01-2.
- ^ Newman, John (2000). The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire. Penguin Books. p. 407. ISBN 9780300096309.
- ^ a b Enoch Robert G. Salisbury (1873). A catalogue of Cambric books at Glan-aber, Chester, A.D. 1500-1799, not mentioned in Rowland's 'Cambrian bibliography' [by E.R.G. Salisbury]. p. 62.
- ^ Marion Loffler (15 October 2014). Political Pamphlets and Sermons from Wales 1790-1806. University of Wales Press. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-1-78316-102-7.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Greenwood, Martin. "Gibson, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10625. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Thomas Richards. "NANNEY (formerly ELLIS), DAVID ELLIS (1759 - 1819), attorney-general for North Wales". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
- ^ Colvin H. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840 Yale University Press 3rd ed 1995,748-49
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "ROWLAND, DANIEL (1713-1790), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.