1784 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget (from 1 August)
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell

Events

• 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.
• 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.
• 28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.
• unknown date – 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 – Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
• 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877)
• 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864)
• date unknown
• Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)
• Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862)
• David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841)

Deaths

• 8 February – Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis)
• March – John Evans, Methodist exhorter, 47?
• 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
• December – John Richard, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer, age unknown
• date unknown
• John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?
• , publisher, 52?

References