1793 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 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 (until 14 March) John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Watkin Williams (until 4 December); Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (from 4 December)
• 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 (until 7 December)

Events

• 22 November - Two ships, the Morva and the Cavendish, are wrecked on The Smalls off Pembrokeshire.
• Construction of Clydach Ironworks begins.
• A group of Quakers from Nantucket Island settle at Milford Haven, where they attempt to set up a whaling industry.
• Y Cylchgrawn Cymraeg is the first political journal to be published in the Welsh language.

Arts and literature

New books

• Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791

Births

• 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
• 8 February - Daniel Rees, clergyman and hymn-writer (d. 1857)
• March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
• 19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
• 10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)
• 11 October - Maria James, poet and domestic servant (d. 1868 in the United States)
• 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)

Deaths

• January - Marged ferch Ifan, harpist, 96
• 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?
• 14 March - Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, 57
• 22 May - John Lloyd, antiquary, 60

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