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1783 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year
1783
to
Wales
and
its people
.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey
-
Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
(until 1 August)
Henry Paget
(from 1 August)
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire
and
Monmouthshire
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Charles Morgan of Dderw
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire
-
Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire
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Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire
âÂÂ
John Vaughan
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire
-
Richard Myddelton
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire
-
Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan
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John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire
-
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire
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George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire
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Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire
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Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Bishop of Bangor
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John Moore
(until 26 April)
John Warren
(from 26 April)
Bishop of Llandaff
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Richard Watson
Bishop of St Asaph
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Jonathan Shipley
Bishop of St Davids
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Edward Smallwell
(from 6 July)
Events
20 August
-
Thomas Charles
marries Sally Jones and settles in
Bala
.
26 September
- Industrialist and slave-owner
Richard Pennant
is created 1st Baron Penrhyn in the county of Lough.
Welsh emigrant
Evan Williams
founds a whiskey distillery in
Bardstown, Kentucky
, United States, which will still be operating in the 21st century.
Arts and literature
New books
Julia Ann Hatton
-
Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects
Music
Evan Hughes
(Hughes Fawr) -
Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen
Births
11 February
-
Thomas Richard
, minister (died 1856)
16 March
-
Henry Williams-Wynn
, politician (died
1856
)
May -
Cadwaladr Jones
, minister and literary editor (died 1867)
unknown dates
Hugh Jones
, archdeacon of Essex (died
1869
)
Deaths
19 June
-
Henry Lloyd
, soldier and military writer
7 August
-
Thomas Llewellyn
, Baptist minister and writer, 63?
2 September
-
Edward Edwards
, academic
6 September
-
Anna Williams
, friend of Dr Johnson, 77?
16 December
-
Sir William James, 1st Baronet
, naval commander, 61-62
References