1785 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1785 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget
• 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

• October - The Mona Mine Company is formed by Thomas Williams of Llanidan and Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge.
• date unknown
• Richard Pennant buys out the Yonge family of Devon and comes into possession of the whole of the Penrhyn estate.
• Griffith Rowlands becomes surgeon to Chester city hospital.
• Sir Joshua Reynolds paints George, Prince of Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

• Anna Maria Bennett - Anna: or Memoirs of a Welch Heiress
• Florence Miscellany (including poems by Hester Thrale)
• Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth

Births

• 2 February - John Josiah Guest, engineer and industrialist (died 1852)
• 9 August - John Henry Vivian, copper merchant, industrialist and politician (died 1855)
• December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
• 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
• date unknown
• David Hughes, Anglican priest and writer (died 1850)
• William Owen, historian (died 1864)

Deaths

• 27 February - Robert Hughes, poet (Robin Ddu o Fôn)
• 25 April - Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet, politician, 74
• June - Siôn Bradford, poet, 78?
• 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
• November (probable) - John Guest, industrialist, 72/73

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