1790 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1790 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1790 to Wales and its people.

Incumbent[]

Monarch - George III

Events[]

Monmouth County Gaol

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[]

Sir George Everest

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 - , printer (died 1855)
date unknown - (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.
^ Jump up to: ^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). "Hughes, Hugh (1790?-1863)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 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
^ "Richards, Thomas (1710?-1790)" . 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.

[1] David Williams. "WILLIAMS, DAVID (1738 - 1816), littérateur and political pamphleteer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.

[2] Phil Carradice (15 August 2013). The Ships of Pembroke Dockyard. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4456-1310-9.

[3] Dean Powell (15 September 2012). Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical. Amberley Publishing Limited. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-1-4456-2052-7.

[4] "MACKWORTH, Herbert (1737-91), of Gnoll, Glam". History of Parliament online. Retrieved 23 October 2018.

[5] Tim Taylor (2005). The Time Team Guide to the Archaeological Sites of Britain & Ireland. Channel 4. pp. 106–. ISBN 978-1-905026-01-2.

[6] Newman, John (2000). The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire. Penguin Books. p. 407. ISBN 9780300096309.

[Cambric-7] Jump up to: ^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.

[8] 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.

[9] Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hughes, Hugh (1790?-1863)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[10] 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.)

[11] 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.

[12] Colvin H. A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840 Yale University Press 3rd ed 1995,748-49

[13] "Richards, Thomas (1710?-1790)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[14] Gomer Morgan Roberts. "ROWLAND, DANIEL (1713-1790), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2018.

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