1795 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - (from April) Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- 8 April - The Prince of Wales marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
- June - Cecilia Thrale, youngest daughter of Hester Thrale, elopes with John Meredith Mostyn, a member of the prominent Anglesey family.[1]
- July - Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia.[2]
- September - Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig.[3]
- date unknown
- Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company.[4]
- The events of the French Revolution cause corn prices to rise dramatically, but wages do not follow. Food riots are commonplace across Wales for the several years after.
- The Universal British Directory includes the first-ever entry for Merthyr Tydfil.[5]
- Copper bolts forged at Parys Mountain are used in the construction of an American warship, the USS Constitution.[6]
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig
- John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl
Births
- 18 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (died 1884)[7]
- 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (died 1869)[8]
- December - John Davies, philosopher (died 1861)
- 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (died 1882)
- 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (died 1876)
- date unknown - Zephaniah Williams, Chartist (died 1874)[9]
- probable - Maria Jane Williams, musician (d. 1873)[10]
Deaths
- 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72[11]
- 11 March - William Mostyn Owen, landowner and politician, 72/3[12]
- May - David Ellis, clergyman and poet, 58[13]
- 20 August - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical 71[14]
- 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79[15]
References
- ^ John Rylands University Library: Thrale-Piozzi manuscripts. Accessed 16 January 2015
- ^ William Ambrose Bebb. "Hughes, Ezekiel (1766-1849), one of the early Welsh settlers in the far west of the U.S.A." Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ The Gregynog Papers #7: Chapter 3. Accessed 16 January 2015
- ^ Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Accessed 16 January 2015
- ^ Paul Reynolds, The Ironmasters' Bags (2010), p93
- ^ "A Copper Confessional". USS Constitution Museum. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1878. p. 855.
- ^ Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Bosworth & Harrison. 1864. p. 81.
- ^ David Williams. "Williams, Zephaniah (1795-1874), Chartist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Marion Löffler. "Williams, Maria Jane ('Llinos') (1795-1873), folklore collector and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Edward William Price Evans. "Edwards, Morgan (1722-1795), Baptist minister and historian". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ P. D. G. Thomas (1964b). "Owen, William (?1742–95), of Woodhouse, Salop and Bryngwyn, Mont.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke.
- ^ David Jenkins. "Ellis, David (1736-1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Enid Pierce Roberts. "Jones, William (1726-1795), antiquary and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins; Llewelyn Gwyn Chambers. "Owen, Henry (1716-1795), cleric, physician, and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 October 2019.