1792 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1792 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

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot
• Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley

Events

• 3 June - Monmouthshire Canal receives its Act of Parliament.
• 21 June - Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony at Primrose Hill in London.
• June - The Merthyr to Newbridge section of the Glamorganshire Canal is completed.
• Bodnant House is built.

Arts and literature

New books

• David Davis (Castellhywel) - Cri Carcharor dan farn Marwolaeth
• Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.
• Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings

Births

• 10 February - John Jones (Ioan Tegid), writer (died 1852)
• 10 April - Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar, politician (died 1875)
• 9 June - David Arthur Saunders Davies, politician (died 1857)
• 23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)
• 27 July - Llewelyn Lloyd, naturalist (died 1876)
• 5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)
• 11 November - Mary Anne Evans (died 1872), future wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli
• 20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863)
• date unknown
• Thomas Davies, physician (died 1839)
• Daniel Evans, poet (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; died 1846)
• Sir Charles John Salusbury, 3rd Baronet (d. 1868)

Deaths

• 23 February - Thomas Ellis, clergyman, about 80
• 10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78
• 17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?
• 27 June - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 48
• September - John Edwards, poet (Siôn Ceiriog), 44/45

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