1790 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1790 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 - Watkin Williams
• 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 (until 11 October)

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Hallifax (until 4 March); Lewis Bagot (from 28 April)
• Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley

Events

• 18 May - The first meeting of the Literary Fund, founded by David Williams ("to assist indigent authors") takes place in London.
• 9 June - Royal assent is given to establishment of the port of Milford Haven.
• August - Construction of the Glamorganshire Canal begins.
• exact date unknown
• Sir Herbert Mackworth gives up the Parliamentary seat of Cardiff when John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, comes of age.
• The world's first railway viaduct (used by horse-drawn wagons to carry coal from the mines) is built at Blaenavon.
• Monmouth County Gaol is built.
• Calvinistic Methodist clergyman Thomas Charles of Bala attempts to preach at Corwen but is driven out of town by a mob.
• John Coles, son of the founder of the Cambrian Pottery, goes into partnership with entrepreneur George Haynes, resulting in the expansion of the business.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Thomas Pennant - Indian Zoology
• David Williams - Lessons to a Young Prince (published anonymously)

Welsh language

• Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi
• Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth

Births

• 27 January - William Davies Evans, mariner and chess player (died 1872)
• 20 February (baptised) - Hugh Hughes, painter (died 1863)
• 19 June - John Gibson, sculptor (died 1866)
• July - James Williams, cleric and co-founder of the Anglesey Association of the Preservation of Lives from Shipwreck (died 1872)
• 4 July - George Everest, surveyor and geographer (died 1866)
• 11 August - William Probert, minister and author (died 1870)
• 16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph (died 1872)
• 27 September - Owen Jones Ellis Nanney (born Ellis Jones), MP (died 1870), father of Sir Hugh Ellis-Nanney
• 29 September - John Jones, printer (died 1855)
• 25 November - Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, 3rd Baronet, politician (died 1861)
• probable - Thomas Penson (the younger), architect and surveyor (died 1859)

Deaths

• 4 March - Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of St Asaph, 57
• 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80
• 24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66
• 11 October - Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 64
• 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79
• 5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65

References