1790s in Wales
# 1790s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1790 - 1799 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
* Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick (from 1795)

## Events

* 1790
* 1791
* 1792
* 1793
* 1794
* 1795
* 1796
* 1797
* 1798
* 1799

## Arts and literature

### New books

* 1790
   * Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi
   * Thomas Pennant - Indian Zoology
   * Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth
* 1792
   * Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings
   * Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.
* 1793
   * Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791
* 1794
   * Iolo Morganwg - Poems Lyric and Pastoral
   * Peter Williams -Gwreiddyn y Mater
* 1795
   * Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig
   * John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl
* 1797
   * Edward Charles - Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry
   * John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Toriad y Dydd
   * Nathaniel Williams - Pregeth a Bregethwyd yn Llangloffan ar Neilltuad … Joseph James a James Davies
* 1798
   * Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
   * Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public
* 1799
   * Philip Yorke - The Royal Tribes of Wales

### Music

* 1798
   * Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies

## Births

* 1790
   * 27 January - William Davies Evans, chess player (d. 1872)
   * 11 August - William Probert, minister and author (d. 1870)
   * 16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph
   * 29 September - John Jones (printer) (d. 1855)
* 1791
   * date unknown - Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)
* 1792
   * 23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)
   * 5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)
   * 20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863)
   * date unknown - Sir Charles John Salusbury, Baronet (d. 1868)
* 1793
   * 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
   * March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
   * 19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
   * 10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)
   * 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)
* 1794
   * 7 May - Rees Howell Gronow, memoirist (d. 1865)
   * 3 November - David Thomas, industrialist (d. 1882)
   * date unknown
   * Evan Davies (Eta Delta), Independent minister (d. 1855)
   * Thomas Jenkyn, theologian (d. 1858)
* 1795
   * 13 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (d. 1884)
   * 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (d. 1869)
   * December - John Davies, philosopher (d. 1861)
   * 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (d. 1882)
   * 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (d. 1876)
* 1796
   * 1 March - John Jones, Talysarn, preacher (d. 1857)
* 1797
   * 11 January - Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's (d. 1875)
* 1798
   * 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (d. 1882)
* 1799
   * 30 June - David Williams, politician (d. 1869)

## Deaths

* 1790
   * 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, lexicographer, 80
   * 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, 77
* 1791
   * 11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73
   * 13 February - William Parry, artist, 48
   * 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher, 68
   * 17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47
* 1792
   * 10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78
   * 17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?
* 1793
   * 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?
* 1794
   * 22 January - John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, MP and heir of the Marquess of Bute, 26
   * ?August - Sackville Gwynne, landowner, 43?
   * 19 August - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet, soldier and politician, 76
   * Hon. William Paget, MP for Anglesey, 25?
* 1795
   * 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72
   * 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79
* 1796
   * February - John Jones, organist, 70?
   * 8 August - Peter Williams, Methodist writer, 63
* 1797
   * 1 June - John Walters, lexicographer, 75
* 1798
   * 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
   * 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72
* 1799
   * May - John Evans, explorer, 29
   * 4 November - Josiah Tucker, economist, 87
