1788 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort
• 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 – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
• 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 (until 6 December)
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell (until 15 April); Samuel Horsley (from 11 May)

Events

• 18 March – Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at Llanuwchllyn.
• 4 June – Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
• date unknown – Architect John Nash, during his "Welsh interlude", designs the stable block at Plas Llanstephan

Arts and literature

New books

• Robert Jones (Robert ab Ioan) – Drych i'r Anllythrennog
• Nicholas Owen – British Remains.
• John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) – Yr Athrofa Rad
• Hester Lynch Piozzi – Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson

Births

• 12 February – William Williams, MP (died 1865)
• 5 October – John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860).
• 28 December – Griffith Davies, actuary (died 1855)
• date unknown – Mary Morgan, servant hanged for killing her newborn child (died 1805)
• probable – Elijah Waring, English-born preacher, editor and writer (died 1857)

Deaths

• 30 January – Charles Edward Stuart, last Stuart claimant to the title of Prince of Wales, 67
• 25 May – David Thomas, noted bone-setter, 49
• 4 August – Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), priest and poet, 57
• 6 December – Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Llandaff and St Asaph, 74
• date unknown – David Evans, canon of St Asaph, writer and musician, 82–83

References