1798 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1798 to Wales and its people.
Incumbent[]
- Monarch - George III
Events[]
- March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
- 31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire;[1]
- June/August - Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by Peter Bailey Williams and William Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.
- 13 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour".[2]
- 17 October - First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
- unknown dates
- The Gwyneddigion Society launches its project of publishing ancient Welsh manuscripts.
- William Lort Mansel becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.[3]
- William Madocks buys the Tan-yr-Allt estate on Traeth Mawr.
- Morgan John Rhys buys a tract of land in the Allegheny mountains of North America for the purpose of founding a Welsh colony, which he names Cambria.[4]
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
- Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon[5]
- 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[6]
Music[]
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies[7]
Births[]
- 3 August - Llewelyn Lewellin, first principal of St David's College, Lampeter (died 1878)
- 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (died 1882)[8]
- date unknown - John Jones Archdeacon of Bangor (died 1863)[9]
Deaths[]
- 21 June - Edward Evans, poet, 81
- 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
- 17 November - George Cadogan Morgan, dissenting minister and scientist, 44[10]
- 23 November - David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), naval surgeon and poet, 47[11]
- 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72[12]
References[]
- ^ "No. 15002". The London Gazette. 27 March 1798. p. 263.
- ^ Arthur Beatty, William Wordsworth, his doctrine and art in their historical relations, University of Wisconsin Studies #17, 1922, p.64
- ^ John Scott; John Taylor (1820). The London Magazine ... Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. p. 236.
- ^ John Vyrnwy Morgan (1918). The Church in Wales in the Light of History: A Historical and Philosophical Study. Chapman & Hall. p. 18.
- ^ Jane Aaron (1 February 2010). Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity. University of Wales Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-7083-2287-1.
- ^ Elizabeth Edwards (15 February 2013). English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806. University of Wales Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-7083-2569-8.
- ^ 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. 68.
- ^ John Vyrnwy Morgan (1908). Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian Era. J. Nisbet. p. 119.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Thomas, D. O. (2004). "Morgan, George Cadogan (1754–1798)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
- ^ David Samwell; Nicholas Thomas; Martin Fitzpatrick; Jennifer Newell (15 July 2007). The death of Captain Cook and other writings. University of Wales Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7083-1968-0.
- ^ Samuel Johnson (1841). Johnson's Dictionary of the English language, containing many additional words; also, A compendium of chronology [&c.]. p. 253.
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