Incumbents

• Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
  
   - George, Prince Regent
  George IV of the United Kingdom
  George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...
  
  
• Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
  
   - Caroline of Brunswick
  Caroline of Brunswick
  Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death...
  
   (from 1795)

Events

• 1790
  1790 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1790 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1791
  1791 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1791 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*Richard Phillips builds Clyne Castle....
  
  
• 1792
  1792 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1792 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1793
  1793 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1794
  1794 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1794 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1795
  1795 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1796
  1796 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1796 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1797
  1797 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1797 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1798
  1798 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1798 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  
• 1799
  1799 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1799 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick-Events:...
  
  

New books

• 1790
  • Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi
  • Thomas Pennant
    Thomas Pennant
    Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
    
     - Indian Zoology
  • Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth
• 1792
  • Hester Thrale
    Hester Thrale
    Hester Lynch Thrale was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life.-Biography:Thrale was born at Bodvel Hall, Caernarvonshire, Wales...
    
     - The Three Warnings
  • Nicholas Owen
    Nicholas Owen (clergyman)
    Nicholas Owen was a Welsh Anglican priest and antiquarian.-Life:Owen, who was born in Llandyfrydog, Anglesey on 2 January 1752 , was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1773 and his Master of Arts degree in 1776...
    
     - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.
• 1793
  • Edward Daniel Clarke
    Edward Daniel Clarke
    Edward Daniel Clarke was an English naturalist, mineralogist and traveller.-Life:Edward Daniel Clarke was born at Willingdon, Sussex, and educated first at Tonbridge....
    
     - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791
• 1794
  • Iolo Morganwg
    Iolo Morganwg
    Edward Williams, better known by his bardic name Iolo Morganwg , was an influential Welsh antiquarian, poet, collector, and literary forger. He was widely considered a leading collector and expert on medieval Welsh literature in his day, but after his death it was revealed that he had forged a...
    
     - 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)
    John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors)
    John Jones , better known by his bardic name Jac Glan-y-gors, was a Welsh language satirical poet and radical pamphleteer, born in Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, north Wales....
    
     - Seren Tan Gwmmwl
• 1797
  • Edward Charles
    Edward Charles
    Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted , better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist....
    
     - Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry
  • John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors)
    John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors)
    John Jones , better known by his bardic name Jac Glan-y-gors, was a Welsh language satirical poet and radical pamphleteer, born in Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, north Wales....
    
     - Toriad y Dydd
  • Nathaniel Williams
    Nathaniel Williams
    -Life:Nathaniel Williams was the son of Thomas Williams, from Swansea in south Wales. Nathaniel Williams studied at the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Jesus College in 1672 and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1676. He wrote two books: A Pindaric Elegy on the famous...
    
     - Pregeth a Bregethwyd yn Llangloffan ar Neilltuad … Joseph James a James Davies
• 1798
  • Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
  • Hester Thrale
    Hester Thrale
    Hester Lynch Thrale was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life.-Biography:Thrale was born at Bodvel Hall, Caernarvonshire, Wales...
    
     - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public
• 1799
  • Philip Yorke
    Philip Yorke
    Philip Yorke was an antiquary who developed a great interest in Welsh history and genealogy relatively late in his life. He is the author of The Royal Tribes of Wales .-Background:...
    
     - The Royal Tribes of Wales

Births

• 1790
  • January 27 - William Davies Evans
    William Davies Evans
    Captain William Davies Evans was a seafearer and inventor, though he is best known today as a chess player. He is buried at the Belgian port of Ostend.- Early life :...
    
    , chess player (d. 1872)
  • August 11 - William Probert, minister and author (d. 1870)
  • September 16 - Thomas Vowler Short
    Thomas Vowler Short
    Thomas Vowler Short was an English churchman, successively bishop of Sodor and Man and bishop of St Asaph.-Life:...
    
    , Bishop of St Asaph
  • September 29 - John Jones (printer) (d. 1855)
• 1791
  • date unknown - Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)
• 1792
  • July 23 - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)
  • September 5 - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)
  • December 20 - David Griffiths
    David Griffiths (missionary)
    David Griffiths , was a British Christian missionary and translator in Madagascar. He translated the Bible and other books into the Malagasy language...
    
    , missionary (d. 1863)
  • date unknown - Sir Charles John Salusbury, Baronet (d. 1868)
• 1793
  • January 17 - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
  • March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
  • July 19 - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
  • August 10 - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
    John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
    John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, KT, FRS was the son of John, Lord Mount Stuart and the former Lady Elizabeth McDouall-Crichton...
    
     (d. 1848)
  • September 25 - Felicia Hemans
    Felicia Hemans
    -Ancestry:Felicia Heman's paternal grandfather was George Browne of Passage, co. Cork, Ireland; her maternal grandparents were Elizabeth Haydock Wagner of Lancashire and Benedict Paul Wagner , wine importer at 9 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool. Family legend gave the Wagners a Venetian origin;...
    
    , poet (d. 1835)
• 1794
  • May 7 - Rees Howell Gronow
    Rees Howell Gronow
    Rees Howell Gronow , "Captain Gronow", was a Welsh Grenadier Guards officer, an unsuccessful parliamentarian, a dandy and a writer of celebrated reminiscences.-Origins and education:...
    
    , memoirist (d. 1865)
  • November 3 - David Thomas
    David Thomas (industrialist)
    David Thomas was a native of Wales who was influential in the birth of the Industrial Revolution in the US.-Development of the hot blast:David Thomas was born in Cadoxton, near Neath...
    
    , industrialist (d. 1882)
  • date unknown
  • Evan Davies (Eta Delta), Independent minister (d. 1855)
  • Thomas Jenkyn, theologian (d. 1858)
• 1795
  • January 13 - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
    Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
    Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn , was a British peer and Member of Parliament .Mostyn was the son of Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn...
    
    , politician (d. 1884)
  • August 5 - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor
    George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor
    George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor was a British peer. He was the son of George Talbot Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor....
    
    , politician (d. 1869)
  • December - John Davies, philosopher (d. 1861)
  • December 7 - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (d. 1882)
  • December 11 - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (d. 1876)
• 1796
  • March 1 - John Jones, Talysarn, preacher (d. 1857)
• 1797
  • January 11 - Connop Thirlwall
    Connop Thirlwall
    Connop Thirlwall was an English bishop and historian.-Early life:Thirlwall was born at Stepney, London, of a Northumbrian family. He was a prodigy, learning Latin at three, Greek at four, and writing sermons at seven.He went to Charterhouse School, where George Grote and Julius Hare were among...
    
    , Bishop of St David's (d. 1875)
• 1798
  • August 16 - Alfred Ollivant
    Alfred Ollivant
    Alfred Ollivant was an academic who went on to become bishop of Llandaff.Born in Manchester, he was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He won the Tyrwhitt Hebrew scholarship in 1822 and was elected to a fellowship at Trinity College. In 1827, he was appointed the first...
    
    , Bishop of Llandaff (d. 1882)
• 1799
  • June 30 - David Williams
    David Williams (Merioneth)
    David Williams was a Welsh Liberal Party politician who served for a short time as the Member of Parliament for the Merioneth constituency...
    
    , politician (d. 1869)

Deaths

• 1790
  • March 20 - Thomas Richards (lexicographer), 80
  • October 16 - Daniel Rowland
    Daniel Rowland
    Daniel Rowland —sometimes spelt as Rowlands—was one of the foremost leaders of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist revival along with Howell Harris and William Williams. For most of his life he served as curate in the parishes of Nantcwnlle and Llangeitho, Ceredigion...
    
    , Methodist leader, 77
• 1791
  • January 11 - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73
  • February 13 - William Parry
    William Parry (artist)
    William Parry ARA was a Welsh artist. Primarily a portrait painter, he was unique for attracting extensive patronage in Wales, due to his connections with Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet....
    
    , artist, 48
  • April 19 - Richard Price
    Richard Price
    Richard Price was a British moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters, and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He fostered connections between a large number of people, including writers of the...
    
    , philosopher, 68
  • September 17 - David Morris (hymn writer), 47
• 1792
  • March 10 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
    John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
    John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute KG, PC , styled Lord Mount Stuart before 1723, was a Scottish nobleman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain under George III, and was arguably the last important favourite in British politics...
    
    , friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78
  • May 17 - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?
• 1793
  • January 5 - Elizabeth Griffith
    Elizabeth Griffith
    Elizabeth Griffith , sometimes also credited Elizabeth Griffiths, was an 18th-century Irish dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, best known for her edition of Shakespeare's comedies published in 1775.- Biography :Griffith was born in Glamorgan, Glamorganshire, Wales to Dublin theatre...
    
    , actress and writer, 73?
• 1794
  • January 22 - John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, MP and heir of the Marquess of Bute, 26
  • ?August - Sackville Gwynne, landowner, 43?
  • August 19 - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet, soldier and politician, 76
  • Hon. William Paget
    William Paget (MP)
    Captain the Honourable William Paget , was a British naval commander and Member of Parliament.-Background:Paget was the second son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, and Jane, daughter of the Very Reverend Arthur Champagné...
    
    , MP for Anglesey, 25?
• 1795
  • January 25 - Morgan Edwards
    Morgan Edwards
    Morgan Edwards was a Welsh historian of religion, Baptist pastor, and notable for his teaching on the 'rapture' before its popularization by John Nelson Darby ....
    
    , Baptist historian, 72
  • October 14 - Henry Owen
    Henry Owen
    The Reverend Dr. Henry Owen was a Welsh theologian and Biblical scholar. Perhaps his most significant contribution to biblical scholarship is his discussion of the date of publication and the form and manner of the composition of the four canonical gospel accounts...
    
    , theologian, 79
• 1796
  • February - John Jones
    John Jones (organist)
    John Jones was an English organist, who served at the St Paul's Cathedral.-Background:He was a chorister of St. Paul's Cathedral under Maurice Greene....
    
    , organist, 70?
  • August 8 - Peter Williams, Methodist writer, 63
• 1797
  • June 1 - John Walters, lexicographer, 75
• 1798
  • July 6 - Joshua Evans
    Joshua Evans (Quaker minister)
    Joshua Evans was an American Quaker minister, journalist, and abolitionist.He was born to Thomas Evans and Rebecca Owen in Evesham, Burlington County, New Jersey. Joshua Evans and Priscilla Collins, daughter of John Collins and Elizabeth Moore, were married at Haddonfield Monthly Meeting on...
    
    , Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
  • December 16 - Thomas Pennant
    Thomas Pennant
    Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
    
    , naturalist and travel writer, 72
• 1799
  • May - John Evans
    John Evans (explorer)
    John Thomas Evans was a Welsh explorer who produced an early map of the Missouri River.John Evans was born in Waunfawr, near Caernarfon...
    
    , explorer, 29
  • November 4 - Josiah Tucker
    Josiah Tucker
    Josiah Tucker , also known as Dean Tucker, was a Welsh churchman, known as an economist and political writer. He was concerned in his works with free trade, Jewish emancipation and American independence...
    
    , economist, 87