1791 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1791 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 – Thomas Harley (politician, born 1730) (from 8 April)
• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot
• Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley

Events

• June - William Jones distributes copies of an address at the Llanrwst eisteddfod, titled To all Indigenous Cambro-Britons, calling on poor Welsh farmers to set up a colony in the United States.
• Richard Phillips builds Clyne Castle.
• Peter Williams is excommunicated by the Methodists for publishing Sabellian heresy.
• Probable date of completion of Methodist chapel at Earlswood, Monmouthshire.
• Thomas Jones becomes High Sheriff of Radnorshire.

Arts and literature

New books

• Joshua Thomas - New translation of the Baptist "Confession of Faith" issued by the London Assembly of 1689
• John Williams - An enquiry into the truth of the tradition concerning the discovery of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170
• Peter Williams - Llythyr at Hen Gydymaith

Births

• 23 February - Sir John Cowell-Stepney, baronet, landowner and politician (d. 1877)
• 5 December - William Henry Yelverton, MP for Carmarthen Boroughs 1832–1835 (d. 1884)
• date unknown
• Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)
• Thomas Fothergill, ironmaster (d. 1858)

Deaths

• 11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73
• 13 February - William Parry, artist, 48
• 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher, 68
• 17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47

References