1784 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people.
Incumbent[]
- Monarch - George III
Events[]
- 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.[1]
- 7 May - Lady Henrietta Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey.
- 14 May - Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, is created Baron Bulkeley.
- 19 May - Henry Bayly Paget, 9th Baron Paget, is created Earl of Uxbridge.
- 23-25 July - Hester Thrale marries Gabriele Piozzi, much to the displeasure of Dr Samuel Johnson.[2]
- 28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.
- Samuel Homfray and his brother quarrel with Anthony Bacon and take out a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district (which develops into the Penydarren ironworks).
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
- Richard Price - Importance of the American Revolution
Music[]
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including first publication of the harp air Dafydd y Garreg Wen
Births[]
- 17 January – , ironmaster (died 1854)[3]
- 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877)[4]
- 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864)
- date unknown
- Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)[5]
- , ironmaster (died 1862)[6]
- David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841)[7]
Deaths[]
- 8 February – Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis)[8]
- March – John Evans, Methodist exhorter, 47?[9]
- 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
- December – John Richard, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer, age unknown[10]
- date unknown
- John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?[11]
- Stafford Prys, publisher, 52?
References[]
- ^ Joseph Timothy Haydn; Robert Beatson (1851). Beatson's Political index modernised. The book of dignities; containing rolls of the official personages of the British empire, together with the sovereigns of Europe, the peerage of England and of Great Britain; and numerous other lists. pp. 244–.
- ^ Marianna D’Ezio (8 January 2010). Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 50–. ISBN 978-1-4438-1891-9.
- ^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1925). A History of the Quakers in Wales and Their Emigration to North America. W. Spurrell and son.
- ^ The Australian Encyclopaedia. Grolier Society of Australia. 1977. ISBN 978-0-9596604-0-1.
- ^ Cardiff (Wales). Records Committee (1905). Cardiff records, being materials for a history of the County Borough from the earliest times. Western Mail Ltd.
- ^ Stewart Williams (1968). Stewart Williams' Glamorgan Historian. D. Brown. p. 187.
- ^ Welsh Biography Online
- ^ Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
- ^ . "EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ . "RICHARD, JOHN (fl. 1743-1784), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ Welsh Biography Online
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